Kanban Articles
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Article 1 – Agile Practices
Posted on September 09, 2012 by admin Today’s extract from Lessons in Agile Management republishes a classic from 2005. This post was inspired by the then emerging and now infamous XIT sustaining engineering implementation of a virtual kanban system at Microsoft. It’s at the root of the myth that you don’t estimate in Kanban.
Article 2 – Is Agile Costing You Too Much?
For a decade now, Kanban has offered an alternative path to agility. At the time of writing my first book, Agile Management for Software Engineering in 2002, I believed that an alternative path was required because too many people were resisting adoption of Agile methods.
Article 3 – Anti SAFE for almost a decade
Posted on July 31, 2013 by David Anderson Increasingly this year I’m being asked to comment about the Scaled Agile Framework (of SAFe) being offered in the market by Dean Leffingwell (and others). One of the main Agile project management software vendors is pushing it very heavily with their clients as a solution to the increasingly recognized problem of scaling Agile adoption in large corporations. It is gaining some market traction.
Article 4 -Getting to “pull” at enterprise scale
So another Agile Conference in North America is over. Once again, perhaps for the 7th year running, we have heard a number of leaders in the Agile community promoting the idea that you should focus on doing the right thing – discovering what customers really want and need – rather than focusing on building and deploying working software.
Article 5 -Dependencies Break Agile
I’ve been running around lately telling people that the presence of dependencies break Agile. Just for the record, I want to explain what I mean when I talk about dependencies. Agile in general, Scrum specifically, is predicated on the idea that the team has everything it needs to deliver an increment of value.
Article 6 – Are Scrum & Scaled Agile Damaging Morale
In 2008 I was scheduled to give a talk to the Bay Area APLN meetup group. The meeting was being held at the offices of The Gap in downtown San Francisco. The organizers arranged to
meet up for a reception in a bar prior to the meeting.
Article 7 – Kanban Does Not Share Your Agile Cross-Functional Team Agenda
In November 2013 the Kanban coaching community agreed that we recognized 3 specific agendas that come with Kanban implementations: sustainability; service-orientation; and survivability. The first of these three is shared with Agile software development methodologies.
Article 8 -Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J.Anderson
David J. Anderson, pioneer in the application of Kanban for software development, recently came to Brazil. A group of InfoQ Brasil editors interviewed David about Lean, Agile and Kanban. See below the main highlights of the interview.
Article 9 –GUEST POST: Customer Kanban – fromcustomer push to customer pull
According to the English dictionary, flow is the action, or fact, of moving along in a steady, continuous stream. In business terms, flow is when value is created for the customer through meaningful work. Explicit in this definition of flow is that both the customer, that has a need or demand, as well as the workers, that fulfill the need or demand, are important.
Article 10 – Kanban and Lean Challenging Association
Posted on July 31, 2013 by David Anderson. There a few vocal detractors and those who resent the success of Kanban who have over the years accused me of many incredibly smart marketing moves. Apparently, I cleverly pursued a Blue Ocean Strategy to skillfully separate out Kanban from both Agile and Lean. I would love to be that clever.
Article 11 – Project Management II- Sequencing Pollicies
In this second in my series of posts exploring project management with Kanban, I would like to look at how we build a project schedule.
Article 12 – Project Management III – Forecasting
In part 3 of our look at Project Management with Kanban, we consider project planning using probabilistic forecasting. Kanban originally shocked the Agile community in 2008 as it became known for not using several practices agilists hold dear:
Article 13 – Project Management III – Risk Review
This is my final blog post in the series on project management with Kanban. If you haven not seen the previous three posts read them here, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. This post looks at how project managers can help with risk management and controlling the average lead time and the the lead time distribution.
Article 14 -David Snowden on Safe
I couldn’t have found a better image for today’s post which is about the proper balance of theory with practice; nay the necessity of interaction between the two. I’m going to illustrate this in the context of Agile in software development but the point has wider application.
Article 15 – Agile is Stretched to Fit
Gain deep insights from the pioneer who led the revolution in Agile and Lean methodology and created the Kanban method. The interview represent a unique opportunity to hear first-hand how to best utilize these innovations.
Article 16 -Lean Kanban conference 2013 -BBC stats
If they were to carve a new Mt. Rushmore into the mountains surrounding Silicon Valley, then alongside Dijkstra, Kernighan, The Three Amigos and The Gang of Four they would need to make room for David J. Anderson, father of Kanban in the software development industry.
Article 17 -Reality Of Scrum
Tobias Mayer thinks the Lean folks in our community have been trashing scrum! While his criticism was aimed at Mary Poppendieck, others associated with Lean in software development, most notably Alan Shalloway and I have said things that the Scrum community dont like. So I think it worth expressing my point of view on this.