Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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 …
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 on the Evolution of the …
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 about Agile. Agile 2009 has lost both these …
InfoQ has just published a video of myself and Dave Nicolette’s presentation at Agile2008 – A Managers’ Introduction to Test Driven Development
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 “rugby” approach. Hence the name Scrum was derived. As part …