Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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There has been a lot of discussion recently around trying to define what Kanban is. Is it a tool? A process? A philosophy? During a discussion on the kanbandev list, Ron Jeffries led me (probably unintentionally) to an idea for a different way of trying differentiate Kanban from other Agile approaches. Rather than attempt a direct comparison and identification of …
Its a month now since the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami and I haven’t had chance to blog about it. There’s probably not much I can add that hasn’t been said elsewhere already. It was an incredible week; stimulating, inspiring, focussed, energising. I learned a lot, and made and met old and new friends. For those who couldn’t make …
I have posted my slides for the talk I did at the Zurich Lean Agile Scrum event on my downloads page. Inspired by the quality of some of the “Zen” presentations at the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami, I created a new deck, and included some more slides on some Lean history. I have added some notes to the …
While the word Kanban comes from the Japanese for “visual card”, the term Kanban as used by the Kanban Software Development community, represents much more than a standard task-board, or team-board. Additionally, the Kanban Software Development community have not tried to replicate the mechanism of the Toyota Production System kanban tool exactly, but have taken the underlying principles in order …
At the SPA conference recently, Joseph Pelrine talked about “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi. The ideas behind this struck a chord with me as a way of describing something I originally said when discussing whether kanban is only suitable for mature teams. That is that rather than focusing on being Agile which may (and should) lead …
I had a brief exchange of tweets with Ron Jeffries, Keith Braithwaite and James Shore after the Miami Lean and Kanban Conference ended regarded Kanban and its compatibility with XP and time-boxes. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to follow up immediately, due to an urgent (and eventful) trip to South Beach 🙂 Rather than try and follow up late on twitter, …
I’m pleased to have been asked to give a Lean and Kanban 101 talk at the Swiss Lean Agile Scrum conference in Zurich on June 4th. I have added details to my Calendar page. I have also now uploaded the slides from my “Kanban, Flow and Cadence” presentations at SPA and ACCU to my Downloads page.
Boris Gloger has written a couple of posts on Kanban. While I know Boris is a great ScrumMaster, Coach and Trainer, his interpretation of kanban is wrong in my opinion – although I may have misinterpreted his interpretation! My immediate thoughts were too wide and varied for a comment on his blog, and I was at SPA2009 so didn’t have …
This week I was at SPA2009. Possibly one of the best conferences I’ve been to recently. Diverse people with lots of great ideas. There are my highlights. Coaching Self Organising Teams This was an excellent session but Joseph Pelrine, full of useful and interesting ideas I hadn’t come across before. Behaviour is a function of a Person and their Environment. …
A new program and pricing structure has been created for the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami. There is now a Lean Day and a Kanban Day, each with a single track. The idea behind the new program is that it allows everyone to be able to see all the presentations, as well as enabling people to only come for …