Archive for category kanban
Course Canvas
Posted by David Bland in agile, course canvas, kanban, scrum, tools on October 28, 2011
In attempting to create courses and workshops to educate people on agile techniques, I found that I’ve struggled to find the right flow.
So I created a tool to help me do just that.
Introducing the Course Canvas.
It uses techniques rooted in agile and visual management to allow me to craft a course with less effort than a cumbersome outline.
It is also a Minimum Viable Product, as I only built just enough to learn whether or not you will find it useful.
Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.
I’m Speaking at Agile2011
Posted by David Bland in agile, agile2011, kanban, speaking engagements on July 28, 2011
For those of you who are attending Agile2011, I’m giving a Lightning Talk on Wednesday August 10th at 4:00pm on kanban.
This talk will be similar in content to what I’ve written previously over at Planbox and DZone.
I won’t have much time for Q&A during the session, but feel free to find me afterwards if you’d like to ask any questions about applying work in progress limits within an iteration.
Dipping Your Toes Into Kanban
Posted by David Bland in agile, extreme programming, kanban, scrum, scrumban on January 26, 2011
The following post was originally a guest article for Planbox and is the basis for my proposed Agile2011 Lightning Talk
Like me, you may have read about the growing popularity of kanban in the agile software development community. Perhaps its mysterious allure and intriguing pronunciation (kahn-bahn not kayun-bayun) have piqued your curiosity, yet you struggle with finding a pragmatic way to apply it to your current software development process?
Interestingly enough, the beauty of kanban is that you can apply it to your two week iterations… right now if you like without that much disruption. In fact, you may even find it so useful that you’ll find other ways to work the kanban mojo.
Let me explain… [Read More]
We’re Self Organizing Into… Kanban?
What’s Kanban?
It isn’t a question you’d expect to hear from a team adopting work in progress limits and just in time tasking while only committing to small user stories.
One of my favorite aspects of being a ScrumMaster and Agile Coach is witnessing a team evolve by inspecting and adapting over time. Granted it isn’t a ride for the faint of heart, but it can be an extremely fascinating experience. This is especially true when the team feels empowered enough to mold themselves into a highly functioning unit.
From my experience, this becomes most apparent during iteration retrospectives… [Read More]
