Archive for category lean

We’re Self Organizing Into… Kanban?

Posted by David Bland in agile, kanban, lean, scrum, scrumban on May 28, 2010

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]

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The Evolution of Done

Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, scrum on March 11, 2010

Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of done as it relates to iterative software development. It comes in many flavors, from working lines of code to acceptance criteria, and can change from tasks to features to releases. While I agree as a community we should continually grow the definition of done, only [...]

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Known Problem, Unknown Solution

Posted by David Bland in agile, lean on October 14, 2009

I found myself quoting Eric Ries today. It occurred when a VP asked me to compare Waterfall vs. Agile, and to explain when it was appropriate to apply each methodology. In under 10 seconds, I was able to get my point across thanks to the following slide deck: Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of [...]

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Technical Debt vs. Releasing Early

Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, startups on July 23, 2009

Technical Debt is a phase coined by Ward Cunningham to help illustrate the pros / cons of releasing software in a quick & dirty fashion vs a long term, cleaner solution. In a nutshell, technical debt is much like financial debt, as it incurs interest in the way of level of effort over time. Financial [...]

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Eric Ries #LeanStartup on Youtube

Posted by David Bland in lean on May 11, 2009

I highly recommend the recent Eric Ries Webinar on Lean Startups. They’ve uploaded it to YouTube, and Eric is now accepting registrations for his Lean Startup Tutorials. (Almost Sold Out!)

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