Taming Chaos with Scrum and Kanban

Published September 13th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Practitioner report on applying scrum and kanban techniques to a system engineering team.

The Lean Influencer’s Mantra

Published September 13th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

Siraj Sirajuddin talks about the Influencer’s (Change Agent) role in introducing Lean and Kanban in large organizations by understanding the philosophy of the Lean process improvement, the forces related to Lean and Kanban adoption, and their dynamics.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Lean-Influencer-Mantra

Scrum vs. Kanban: Enemies or Synergies

Published September 6th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Scrum is a process model that promotes highly interactive, value driven development and has been successfully adopted by agile teams worldwide. Kanban, meaning “signboard”, is a concept relating to Lean and focuses on the reduction of work in progress and relies upon a visual signal to indicate that new work should be started. Both models have proven track records, and in this session Joel and Steve discuss what makes them unique to each other, but also how Scrum and Kanban can work together to produce stunning team results.


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Agility And Programs With Johanna Rothman

Published August 31st, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

A discussion with Johanna Rothman, author of “Manage It!, Manage Your Project Portfolio and Behind Closed Doors” about agility and programs, making transition to agile.

Retrospectives

Published August 30th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Retrospectives are the Agile team’s most powerful tool for facilitating continuous improvement. We’ve all encountered teams that make the same mistakes and suffer the same pain over and over again. The good news is that it’s possible for just about any team to break this cycle by investing as little as an hour a week in learning to use retrospectives to systematically and incrementally improve performance. In this workshop, you will learn how to use Retrospectives to put your team on a path of continuous improvement.

Scrum or Kanban? Yes!

Published August 25th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Michael Sahota talks about how Scrum and Kanban are complementary practices that should be used (or not) depending on the context.

Mary and Tom Poppendieck on Lean Software

Published August 25th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

Mary and Tom discuss the history of Lean, and what they feel are the most important things for software teams and organizations to thrive.Results are not the point, the point is growing your people, converting them into effective problem solvers who are relentlessly improving. If everybody in the organization is a problem solver, you’ll get steadily better and better.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/poppendieck-interview

Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment

Published August 23rd, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

In this session of the Jazoon conference last June in Zurich, Ken Schwaber talked about the importance of having a good definition of the concept of  “done” and the lack of technical practices in Scrum projects that lead to technical debt. You can read my own review of this presentation.

Kanban for Video Game Development

Published August 23rd, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

This session describes how Lean Production and Kanban has been applied to game development. Lean principles and Kanban tools have been used by a number of developers, including the presenter, to slash production costs by over 50%. As a complement, or replacement, to Scrum, Lean/Kanban provides predictability, transparency and optimization for complex game production.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kanban-video-game-dev

Kanban and Scrum

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | 4 Comments

This video briefly explains the differences and similarities between Kanban and Scrum.

Related article: Aspects of Kanban

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