Archive for category humor

Introducing Kantban(tm)

Posted by David Bland in agile, humor, lean on April 1, 2011

As you know, Kanban became popular years ago with the Toyota Production System and has recently been superfitted to software development practices. While the Agile & Kanban communities are fighting over which philosophy is better, a courageous few have risen above the fray to introduce the next evolution of Kanban dubbed: Kantban Pronounced “kah-yunt-bah-yun”, this [...]

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Top 5 Build Failure Sounds

Posted by David Bland in agile, humor, tools on March 25, 2010

I find continuous integration tools essential to Agile software development. One click CI software helps us seamlessly pair collective code ownership with frequent deployments. Yet as we all know there will come a time when the build fails, and we all must be held accountable. I’m not one to punish individual team members that trigger [...]

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Story Pointless

Posted by David Bland in humor, user stories on September 17, 2009

Have you ever attempted explaining Story Points to a new Agile team? It can be an incredibly frustrating experience. Perhaps that is a result of the Story Point being an arbitrary unit of measure, or perhaps I’m just bad at it. I remember in a CSM class once we walked through the Dog Points Exercise. [...]

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