Posts Tagged kanban

Kanban Kickoff

Release and Iteration kickoffs can be challenging. Luckily for us, some of the same techniques we use to manage the flow of work within a Release or Iteration can be used to help us with our kickoffs.

Kanban 101 reminds us to:
- Make Work Visible
- Limit Work In Progress
- Help Work to Flow

Kanban Story Sizing:

Create 3 columns before beginning your story sizing exercise. Label them Ready to Size, Sizing and Sized. Place all of the stories you wish to size in the Ready to Size column. Pull the stories through each column as you progress. Since I’m usually planning with one team, I only put a WIP limit on the Sizing column and keep it at 1.

I use Index Cards for this exercise, but you could project your Agile Lifecycle Management software up onto a wall or Skype it and accomplish the same thing… [Read More]

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I’m Speaking at Agile2011

David J Bland Agile2011 SpeakerFor 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.

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Dipping Your Toes Into Kanban

dipping your toes into kanbanThe 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]

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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]

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My Response to the V1 Blog

My comment over on the V1 Blog is pending moderation, but I wanted to expand upon it here in the meantime. You could run an Agile / Scrum / Kanban project to flawless execution and it could still result in waste. You could be achieving failure in an extremely efficient manner due to no customer [...]

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