Background I recently had the opportunity to talk with a couple of HR managers who were interested in how agile can help the HR department become more effective. This was a context where the product development is well into their agile journey, and we are talking about a group of about 20-30 people providing HR …
To Team or not to Team? If you look at the definition of Kanban or Lean, you wouldn’t find teams anywhere there. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, you can find “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams” Scrum is quite clear about the topic (Quoting the Scrum Guide 2011) “Scrum …
Here is my talk, together with a great visualization provided by the conference organizers. My main points were: Classes of service do apply when developing products. Classes of service don’t cover cases when you need to give different Treatment to different kinds of work, so I introduce Classes of Treatment for context-specific policies for “how to do …
Background Scrum teams often finish sprints out of breath, out of quality, and out of joy. You also see teams that start the sprint full of numbing fear, set a low bar and that low bar becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Add to that Product Owners, Scrum Masters and managers all spending precious time worrying about …
Background I recently had a short twitter chat with Catherine Swetel and Steven Holt about the relation between TOC Critical Chain and Kanban. This post will try to sum up my thoughts in a way that is a little bit more persistent, as well as add a bit more color and depth that is not …
Here are my slides from my talk today, in prezi form. Some concepts I talk about are Classes of Treatment – not everything deserves the same kind of treatment… Kanban principles scales cleanly from team to portfolio Informing Team/Org Structure from Kanban thinking Context-specific explicit policies more important the higher you scale. Adoption Kanban – …
I’m currently at LKBE11 enjoying the great lineup of speakers and great atmosphere. As for my part, I’m 50% done… Below is my Prezi for Commitments and Energies in a Kanban/Pull system. I’ll share tomorrow’s prezi tomorrow once I finish some last responsible moment tweaks based on things I heard today and want to emphasize …
I’ve been listening to Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement Cast for a while now, so was thrilled to have a chance to be a guest on the show. Tom and I discussed Agile, Kanban and some other topics. The interview has just been posted, I hope you will enjoy it! Please leave …
If you didn’t have the chance to see me talk at LSSC11, you can check out the video over at the LimitedWipSociety WIKI. More videos are available to LSSC members – anyone interested in Lean/Kanban/Systems Thinking should seriously consider joining and checking those videos out!
Some of us have the luxury of designing processes for greenfield systems meaning there is no history/legacy to deal with. Typically though, we are dealing with Brownfield/Legacy systems – This usually means there is some work in the system already, there are outstanding commitments, and some existing queues between steps in our processes. I’m working …