Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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 …
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 Aikedo and …
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 – Controlled Work Flow – Effective …
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 Development.