Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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While the word Kanban comes from the Japanese for “visual card”, the term Kanban as used by the Kanban Software Development community, represents much more than a standard task-board, or team-board. Additionally, the Kanban Software Development community have not tried to replicate the mechanism of the Toyota Production System kanban tool exactly, but have taken the underlying principles in order …
At the SPA conference recently, Joseph Pelrine talked about “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi. The ideas behind this struck a chord with me as a way of describing something I originally said when discussing whether kanban is only suitable for mature teams. That is that rather than focusing on being Agile which may (and should) lead …
I had a brief exchange of tweets with Ron Jeffries, Keith Braithwaite and James Shore after the Miami Lean and Kanban Conference ended regarded Kanban and its compatibility with XP and time-boxes. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to follow up immediately, due to an urgent (and eventful) trip to South Beach 🙂 Rather than try and follow up late on twitter, …
I’m pleased to have been asked to give a Lean and Kanban 101 talk at the Swiss Lean Agile Scrum conference in Zurich on June 4th. I have added details to my Calendar page. I have also now uploaded the slides from my “Kanban, Flow and Cadence” presentations at SPA and ACCU to my Downloads page.
Boris Gloger has written a couple of posts on Kanban. While I know Boris is a great ScrumMaster, Coach and Trainer, his interpretation of kanban is wrong in my opinion – although I may have misinterpreted his interpretation! My immediate thoughts were too wide and varied for a comment on his blog, and I was at SPA2009 so didn’t have …
A new program and pricing structure has been created for the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami. There is now a Lean Day and a Kanban Day, each with a single track. The idea behind the new program is that it allows everyone to be able to see all the presentations, as well as enabling people to only come for …
I’m going to be talking about Kanban, Flow and Cadence at the Brighton Agile Forum next week on Wednesday 18th March, 7.30pm. The venue is The Skiff, 49 Cheltenham Place. More details can be found on upcoming. If you’re in the area, I hope to see you there.
Update: The provisional dates have moved to from Sep 21-22 to Sep 27-29. I am pleased to announce that we have started to plan for a Lean & Kanban Conference to take place in London, provisionally set for Sep 27-29 at the RSA (http://www.thersa.org/house). As well as hoping to get these dates pencilled into your diaries, we would like to …
A common topic of discussion around kanban is whether the workflows or stages in a kanban system are counter to the Agile principles of cross functional and collaborative teams. Its easy to talk about a feature going through the following flow in a kanban system: Analysis –> Build –> Test –> Release which I confess looks very waterfall-ish and I …
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 …