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Karl Scotland – Using Agile to Deliver Value
Aleksey Goncharenko, a Project Manager at Flexis Corporation, has translated my Kanban, Flow and Cadence post into Russian. If you can read Russian, you can find it here!
August 1, 2009 - 9:06 pm
Tags: KFC Development, Skills Matter
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The slides from my Kanban, Flow and Cadence presentation at Skills Matter are now available for download, and the video of the session is also available for viewing.
July 28, 2009 - 1:09 pm
Tags: Conference, Kanban, KFC Development, KSE:Miami
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This is the announcement from David Anderson on his blog:
After some delay while we arranged for hosting, the videos from the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference in Miami are now available.
I need to thank InfoQ for making all of this happen. As a media sponsor, InfoQ intended to use these videos together with the presentation [...]
July 16, 2009 - 7:15 pm
Tags: Conference, Kanban, KFC Development, Limited WIP Society, miniSPA, Skills Matter
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I did a re-run of Kanban. Flow and Cadence at miniSPA yesterday after being selected as one of the best sessions from the main SPA conference this year. I’ve just uploaded the slides on my downloads page. I had some good and appreciative feedback, and Mark Stringer has bee good enough to post some of [...]
March 11, 2009 - 3:38 pm
Tags: Brighton Agile Forum, Kanban, KFC Development
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I’m going to be talking about Kanban, Flow and Cadence at the Brighton Agile Forum next week on Wednesday 18th March, 7.30pm. The venue is The Skiff, 49 Cheltenham Place. More details can be found on upcoming.
If you’re in the area, I hope to see you there.
December 22, 2008 - 12:12 pm
Tags: Cadence, Flow, Kanban, KFC Development, Simulation
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I use a simulation when I have time in presentations on Kanban, Flow and Cadence, which I hope makes the ideas a bitter clearer and more concrete. I was asked if I could make the materials available, so here they are with an explanation. Its not perfect, and can be slow and time consuming, so [...]
October 28, 2008 - 2:30 am
Tags: Cadence, Flow, Kanban, KFC Development, MMF
Posted in Agile | 44 comments
Intro
There has been some noticeable increase in interest in Kanban recently, with a number of people asking for more basic info, and more people writing new blogs and articles. This is my attempt to describe in more detail my take on it all, which I refer to as Kanban, Flow and Cadence.
Kanban – Controlled Work
Flow [...]
June 27, 2008 - 2:20 pm
Tags: Cadence, Flow, Kanban, KFC Development
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One of the regular questions I get asked when I talk to people about KFC Development is about how it is different. As a result I came up with a set of KFC Consequences to try and help articulate this.
Kanban Consequence – Eliminate backlogs, timeboxed iterations and estimates.
Eliminate might be a slightly strong word, but [...]
April 9, 2008 - 2:00 pm
Tags: Cadence, Flow, Kanban, KFC Development
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I’ve been referring to my latest thinking on development process as KFC Development. Its a bit of a gimmicky name, which makes it memorable, but there is some meaning behind it. KFC stands for Kanban, Flow and Cadence – three lean concepts which I think are important and complementary.
Kanban – Kanban is [...]

My name is Karl Scotland, and this is where I'll publish my thoughts and experiences on using agile software development methods and practices such as XP, Scrum and in particular Kanban Systems for Software Development.
I'm currently working as a Agile Coach for EMC Consulting (UK) - the consultancy formerly known as Conchango - and am a founder member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.
September 24, 2009 - 6:41 pm
Karl,
if you know Aleksey Goncharenko’s e-mail please ask him to write me about russian translation.
September 25, 2009 - 11:17 am
Hi – I have passed on you email address to him.
Karl