XP Day London Wrap-up

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December 15, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
XP Day London 08 was last week.  The slides and spreadsheet from my Kanban, Flow and Cadence are now available on the download page. All in all, the conference was a good one.  Open Space went really well.  Too many interesting options to choose from, which is usually a good sign.  I ran a session [...]

Support the Agile Fringe

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December 12, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
Agile 2008 was driven by the vision of a music festival (e.g. Glastonbury).  In the same way that music festivals encourage new and emerging acts, Agile 2008 had a Breaking Acts stage with the same goals.  Agile 2008 also had a Questioning Agile stage in order to be transparent and encourage debate [...]

Managers' Introduction to TDD at Agile2008

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November 28, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
InfoQ has just published a video of myself and Dave Nicolette’s presentation at Agile2008 – A Managers’ Introduction to Test Driven Development

Kanban and the New New Product Development Game

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November 26, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
One of the primary origins of Scrum is “The New New Product Development Game” by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.  This is the article in which the contrast is made between a traditional sequential or “relay race” approach and a holistic or [...]

Is Kanban Only Suitable for Mature Teams?

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November 5, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
Another hot topic around kanban is whether it only suitable to use with mature agile teams. In terms of Shu Ha Ri, is kanban a Ri process, or can it be a Shu, or even Ri process? A good description of Shu Ha Ri can be found here.  To summarise, the concept comes from the Japanese martial art [...]

Kanban, Flow and Cadence

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October 28, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
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 – [...]

Page Updates

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October 10, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
A couple of page updates for the blog: Calendar – I’ve added two new upcoming conferences that I’m going to be speaking about “Kanban, Flow and Cadence” at.  They’re XPDay08 and SPA2009. Kanban – I’ve created a new page to pull together various references on Kanban for Software [...]

Agile Business Conference 2008 Review

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September 26, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
The conference was opened by BBC’s Ian Palmer, who also hosted Day 1, and he began by making the analogy between delivering a software project and delivering a news story.  There is a deadline, and a budget, but at the end of the day, its the story that’s important. Keynote: Peter Morowski – Senior [...]

Agile Business Conference 2008

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September 22, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
I’m going to be at the Agile Business Conference this week, primarily to give another performance of “A Manager’s Guide to Test Driven Development” with Dave Nicolette.  I’ll try and blog highlights here again, and if you’re there, please say hello.  I’ll be looking for any opportunity to talk [...]

My Recipe For Success

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September 18, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
I’ve been doing more introductory Agile and Scrum training recently, and have been thinking about the best way to get across the core ideas that underpin Agile.  I find the Manifesto Values a bit too woolly, and the Principles too wordy, to be immediately meaningful.  At the same time, David [...]
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