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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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.

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

The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study

Published August 19th, 2010 Under Agile, Lean | Leave a Comment

Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and the technical team, offering advice for each component of the enterprise. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then gradually moving to Kanban, explaining why Kanban makes more sense to them, what it offers over Agile and what are the benefits.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Need-For-Enterprise-Agility

Single Piece Flow in Kanban: A How-To

Published August 11th, 2010 Under Lean, Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video presents how to surpass the limitations of some Kanban systems based on a sequence of phases by introducing work cells which involves using simultaneous phases grouped in two queues: what you are doing and what you are going to do.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Single-Piece-Flow-Kanban

Related article: Aspects of Kanban

Kanban for Just in Time Training

Published June 29th, 2010 Under Lean, 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 Lean, Project Management, Scrum | 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 Agile | 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 Lean, Project Management, Scrum | 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

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