Skills Matter Slides and Video Available

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August 1, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
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.

Lean & Kanban Miami 2009 Videos Available

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July 28, 2009
by Karl Scotland in ,
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 [...]

Ratings Activated

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July 28, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
I’ve just activated ratings on the blog. They can be found at the bottom of each post on their indivual permalink pages. If you have the time and energy, please find your favourite (or most hated) entries and rate them. Feedback is always good

What is Cadence?

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July 21, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
Mark Stringer gave me some good feedback recently, that I clearly hadn’t described what I meant be Cadence at the recent miniSPA conference. In order to try and correct that, I thought I’d try and clarify with a blog post that it not simply variable length iterations. The purpose of a cadence is to [...]

Kanban, Flow and Cadence News

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July 16, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
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 [...]

Kanban Is My First Language

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July 10, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
I was chatting with Benjamin Mitchell recently on the way back from the recent Skillsmatter event at the BBC and said something along the lines of, “I think in terms of Kanban, even when I teach Scrum”. I’ve been mulling over that idea more recently and decided that its a good analogy. Kanban and [...]

Does Kanban Respect People, Self Organisation and Continuous Improvement

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July 9, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
There has been a lot of talk recently about whether Kanban Systems for Software Development include the need to respect people, and allow self organisation and continuous improvement. It is true that the community has primarily focussed on the mechanics of Kanban Systems. I believe that this is [...]

The Fifth Primary Practice of Kanban

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June 30, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
I recently wrote what I considered to be the four primary practices of a Kanban System for Software Development: Map the Value Stream Visualise the Value Stream Limit the Work in Progress Establish a Cadence During subsequent discussions on the aspect of Continuous Improvement in a Kanban System, [...]

A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2

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June 22, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
Back in January, I wrote a Kanban Sidebar for an upcoming book on Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. The book is now out in beta, and I have updated the sidebar as part of the review process. I found it interesting to see how my thinking has evolved over the last few months. A Kanban [...]

How Is Kanban Different From Other Approaches?

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June 15, 2009
by Karl Scotland in
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 [...]
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