Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity

Published November 18th, 2010 Under Agile, Lean | Leave a Comment

Kanban is proving a key enabler in the development of a kaizen culture and has been shown to create the emergence of high maturity behaviors (CMMI model level 4 & 5) whilst remaining true to Agile and Lean values. This presentation is based on case studies over a four year period. Teams using Kanban are empirically observed to practice quantitative management with many utilizing statistical process control as part of an objective continuous improvement and project management program. Cross team process performance appraisal has been observed. Root cause analysis and elimination is often commonplace and a Toyota style kaizen and kaka improvement program is also common. Kanban teams have been seen to evolve to these high maturity practices in unprecedented short time frames such as 9 months. This presentation will discuss why high maturity is both desirable and necessary from a business perspective and a process adoption perspective, report evidence of high maturity on teams using Kanban, discuss the emergence of high maturity behavior without a formal process definition, and debate the cultural reasons why Kanban may be responsible for accelerated achievement of high maturity.

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Dogfooding Kanban

Published November 8th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

Chris Hefley is President and co-founder of Bandit Software, the makers of the online Kanban tool “LeanKit Kanban”. About a year ago, we began to assemble an international team of developers to build out the software we had envisioned. If you need a break from erudite dispositions, scholarly research, hard evidence and sound theory, then stop by and hear this collection of tidbits, tall tales and unfounded accusations. It’s about learning to walk, and those moments where we looked at each other and said “Dude…we suck at Kanban” – and what we did to get better at it. In this session, we’ll share some lessons learned from dogfooding our own product, managing a highly distributed team, working 19 hours a day, and figuring out how to apply Kanban to our own development process. We’ll also talk about things we’ve learned from observing and interacting with our users – how they’ve responded to an electronic kanban tool, and how they’ve implemented kanban in their organizations.

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The Kanban Story – Ups and Downs of Implementing Kanban

Published October 25th, 2010 Under Agile, Lean | Leave a Comment

Kanban is the lightest methodology used to support software project management these days. Kanban has also the lowest possible entry barrier for teams willing to implement it. That doesn’t mean Kanban is a sure shot method to improve performance in every environment. The presentation will go through real-life Kanban implementation pointing its strengths and weaknesses. Background story shows not only basics of Kanban but also presents how, and why, the way team uses the method is evolving over time. After listening to the speech attendant should learn where Kanban shows its full potential and where its impact is limited

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Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban

Published October 4th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Tim Wingfield tells his story moving from Scrum to Kanban, presenting several versions of Kanban boards used over time, including the benefits and drawbacks. He also mentions additional practices used: retrospectives, pair programming, code review, and stand-up meetings.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Moving-to-Kanban

A Kanban Multiverse

Published September 21st, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

A kanban board is more than simply a task board, or a story board, or even a team board. It’s a visual management tool to create a shared mental model amongst a community of interest. As such, sophisticated display techniques should be used to create meaning and motivation through collaboration and communication. A kanban multiverse could be “the hypothetical set of multiple possible kanban boards that together comprise everything that physically could be visualised: the entirety of scope and time, all forms of work type, status and flow, and the organisational laws and constants that govern them”.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-scrum/karl-scotland-on-a-kanban-multiverse

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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Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity

Published September 6th, 2010 Under Agile, Lean | Leave a Comment

David Anderson discusses the role of Kanban in bringing accelerated high maturity in organizations from the business and process adoption perspective, without having a formal process definition, presenting evidence of organizations achieving high maturity in very short time (3-9 months), and considering the cultural factors in Kanban success.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Kanban-and-High-Maturity

Converting A Scrum Team to Kanban

Published August 31st, 2010 Under Agile, Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

A case study of a Scrum team who shifted to Kanban in the midst of a runaway project. I will show how we wrestled with problems under tight deadlines and step-by-step brought the project and the team’s self confidence back on track. We found kanban to be a useful tool into seeing and agreeing, inside the team and among stakeholders, what issues to deal with first. I will also talk about the complementary techniques we used (besides kanban) for dealing with the problems we encountered.

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