Kanban for Just in Time Training

Published June 29th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

It is not uncommon in IT projects that you are required to learn something on the fly or you see an opportunity to introduce a new technique or tool that would bring great benefits to a project. In this presentation, John Stevenson discusses how Kanban can be used to manage a training schedule, for either personal development or for team skills transfer.

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Migrating from Scrum to Scrumban – an Experience Report from a Kanban Virgin

Published June 10th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Last year one of my client teams was looking for a better way to work following some problems while running fairly standard Scrum. One change appeared to be to combine Scrum with kanban – “Scrumban”. So we jointly decided to give it a go. This experience report explains how the team did it. It should help anyone interested in evolving their Scrum and other timeboxed iterative process to an interesting alternative. The talk will cover:
* Why evolve? A summary of how the team was working and the issues they were seeing.
* Practical observations of how using kanban changes timeboxed iterative develop process
* Some of the questions that you will need to address when you change
* Some concrete solutions to those questions Where next? Possible directions for further evolution.

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Requirements Traceability Introduction

Published April 26th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

This video demonstrates an example of agile requirements traceability. We discuss an example user story and show how detailed requirements captured as test tables can be used to build executable specifications and aid the design process. Finally we wrap up by a brief example of how we would track the progress of multiple user stories across our scrum or kanban wall.

Agile Tips – Kanban and Support teams

Published April 14th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

How to use Kanban practices for Scrum teams that support existing products and receive a lot of urgent requests during a sprint

Henrik Kniberg on Different Agile Processes

Published February 24th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Henrik Kniberg discusses the differences among different Agile processes such as Scrum, XP, and Kanban. He shares the thought that processes wars are meaningless and we need to see each process as a tool; there are no bad tools; just tools used for the wrong purpose.

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