Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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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.
Update: The provisional dates have moved to from Sep 21-22 to Sep 27-29. I am pleased to announce that we have started to plan for a Lean & Kanban Conference to take place in London, provisionally set for Sep 27-29 at the RSA (http://www.thersa.org/house). As well as hoping to get these dates pencilled into your diaries, we would like to …
A common topic of discussion around kanban is whether the workflows or stages in a kanban system are counter to the Agile principles of cross functional and collaborative teams. Its easy to talk about a feature going through the following flow in a kanban system: Analysis –> Build –> Test –> Release which I confess looks very waterfall-ish and I …
In a recent thread on the kanbandev list, Tim Uttormark asked about how Kanban handles teams with different dysfunctions without the Sprint timebox and associated meetings. He gave the following example: In Scrum, all tasks for the iteration are estimated by the team in sprint planning. Tasks assignments are not known at the time of sprint planning. The task estimate …
From the kanbandev list: Just wanted to remind you that our Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference is taking place in Miami May 6-8. http://www.leankanbanconference.com/ We’ve confirmed a few additional speakers for the event. Notably Joshua Kerievsky who’ll talk about the iterationless, estimationless XP process at Industrial Logic, and Jeff Patton who’s been using kanban with his clients in North America. …
A recent discussion on the leanagile list compared Scrum and Kanban with respect to team swarming. The suggestion was that swarming doesn’t occur in kanban due to the way work flows from role to another. This is a common misconception, leading to the perception that kanban is more like waterfall than agile. Here’s my response. Firstly: I would say that …
The Lean & Kanban 2009 conference which I promoted (am am speaking at) has been rescheduled to May 6-8. Its still in the same location in Miami, and the schedule is pretty much the same, although Don Reinertsen is unable to make it. There are early mutterings of a European based version of the conference towards the end of this …
I was kindly asked by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley to write a sidebar on kanban for their upcoming book on Agile Coaching (no links yet). Here’s what I put together: An alternative approach to planning work in time-boxed iterations is to use a Kanban system. A Kanban system uses physical tokens to limit work in progress and to pull …
The Lean & Kanban 2009 conference in Miami (KSE : Miami) is officially open for registration at http://leankanbanconference.com/. Its February 18th-20th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. From the Flyer: Two and half days featuring a full day of presentations with separate tracks for Lean and Kanban, plus a full day of open space and a half day of lightning talks. …
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 I’d love any feedback on …