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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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

Mary Poppendieck Introduces the Book “Leading Lean Software Development”

Published March 22nd, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Mary Poppendieck talks about her last book “Leading Lean Software Development”, a book for the product, program and all C-level managers, showing them how to apply agile principles and practices starting from the realization that development teams are not successful if they are not in the same boat with their managers.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Leading-Lean-Software-Development

Lean Thinking: What is Distinctive About It and Where is It Going?

Published March 8th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Marc Baker discusses the origin of Lean and how it has developed into a complete business system. He also reviews the current frontiers of lean thinking and practice and wraps it up with insights from lean transformations for IT and software development.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/lean-thinking-distinctions

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