Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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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 …