Key Points for Using Kanban in Large-scale Product Development

Published February 2nd, 2012 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

While Kanban has a reputation for being the solution for the Service Delivery side of the IT world, it is highly applicable to classic Product/System Development as well. Thru stories, boards and visibility charts from real AgileSparks clients we will see what works, what’s irrelevant, what’s missing, and how to fill the gaps. Read more

Using Kanban to Set up a Scrum Project

Published January 17th, 2012 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video shows you how to leverage Kanban to organise your visioning work and what the corresponding Kanban board looks like. Scrum like most other agile methods is silent on the “fuzzy front end” – the early product creation activities that include market research, product planning, and prototyping and are commonly called “visioning.” Read more

Can Kanban Avoid Becoming a Management Fad?

Published January 5th, 2012 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

Benjamin Mitchell believes that Kanban risks to become a fad if it does not cover gaps related to experiencing embarrassment and threat. He proposes a solution based on the double-loop learning model. Read more

Scrum and KanBan Combined

Published October 14th, 2011 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video shows how a company use a Scrum and KanBan combination. Rob van Lanen, development manager at PAT, explains how they use Scrum for development work in the sprints, but use KanBan to deal with issues with released software in the field. Their helpdesk prioritises the issues and the team uses the KanBan board to solve these issues as fast as possible. A good example of how a team has found their best way of working, by inspecting and adapting.

Kanban Fishbowl Session

Published August 3rd, 2011 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

This video shares experiences and lessons learned from introducing Kanban to various organizations.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Kanban-Fishbowl-Session

How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile

Published June 6th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This video reviews the company culture model created by William Schneider and then use it to understand the Agile Manifesto, the Manifest for Software Craftsman and Kanban Principles to understand what their implied cultural bias.

Video Producer: http://agilitrix.com/

Kanban at RadicalFusion

Published March 14th, 2011 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

This video presents how RadicalFusion have applied Kanban and Lean methodologies during a San Francisco Agile User Group meeting.

Personal Kanban: Optimizing the Individual Coder

Published March 7th, 2011 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

There are myriad ways to optimize teams, butwe often ignore the individual. When the individual is overlooked, the software production can be severely compromised. This video presents the application of Personal Kanban to optimize individual workflow, promote cross-team collaboration and streamline small team interactions.

Watch this video on oredev.org

Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise

Published January 18th, 2011 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

In this video, Mike Cottmeyer blends concepts like Epics, Features, User Stories, Story Maps, Minimally Marketable Features, Scrum, Kanban, RUP, and even traditional SDLC to create a scalable agile enterprise portfolio framework.

Video Producer: http://www.leadingagile.com/

Kanban – Crossing the Line, Pushing the Limit or Rediscovering the Agile Vision?

Published January 7th, 2011 Under Lean | Leave a Comment

This video discusses the origins of Kanban, software Kanban, how it is different from other Agile methods and what it is useful for, the team maturity needed, and some of disadvantages of using Kanban.

Watch this video on infoq.com

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