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Speaking at Lean Kanban 2010 Europe

I will be speaking in Lean Kanban 2010 in Belgium. I’m excited about the agenda and connecting to the Lean/Kanban community in Europe. It will also give me a chance to give a visit to my recent Kanban team in Utrecht and see how they are doing :-)

Agile/Kanban interview on Reversim

I’ve been listening to podcasts for some years now. reversim (רברס עם פלטפורמה) is a podcast by Ran and Ori, two kibutzniks talking about all things Software Engineering, in Hebrew. I had the pleasure of having a chat with Ran and Ori a few weeks ago about Agile, Kanban, Agilesparks, Lean Startups, and some other things. …

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Scrumban when will this be done

Dennis Stevens wrote a wonderful blog post called Kanban and when will this be done where he talks about how to forecast done dates in a kanban environment and how kanban looks at estimates, unperdictability, and how to make commitments. I think its a great post, go read it!!! After you're done, try to think …

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David Anderson's Kanban Book

For those interested in Kanban and still reading those actual things you hold in your hands and spend several hours on, David Anderson’s new Kanban book is out there… As David provided Agilesparks with the draft manuscript to help us prepare for a Kanban Coaching Workshop we had with him back in February,  I was …

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Using Kanban to drive Continuous Improvement and Management Teams

It seems like new uses for Kanban are cropping up every day. One of those ideas is to use Kanban in order to drive Continuous Improvement efforts.

Lately I’ve been trying to understand how best to represent Known Unknowns (KU) stories/tasks in the BDC. I’m talking about things like Support cases from customers – things not related to stories from the backlog essentially, that you know you will need to address. I’m wondering how the burndown chart should reflect those.

Invest in your Product Owner

Getting the user stories on the right size, in the right format, in essence getting to the sprint in a READY-READY form (READY actually means READY, not make-believe READY…) requires a lot of cooperation from the Product Owner/Manager. He should understand the value he gets if he INVESTs in stories/features, because it DOES create work …

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Big is bad, small is good!

While a lot of what affects an agile team is within the team’s scope of responsibility, the key antipattern I’m talking about today sort of isn’t… A big factor on whether a team can be effective is the size of stories/features on its backlog. A lot of good things happen when stories are Small (See …

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The cost of iterations applied to Kanban as well…

My latest blog post was about the costs and challenges of iterations, as well as what to do to overcome them. One of the other things I’m working on is Kanban. I believe Kanban is a great fit to many teams and situations. Specifically doing Scrumban is a great way to get the benefits of …

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Iterate / Inspect and Adapt – nice in theory…

On paper, it all makes sense. You iterate in order to deliver business value as early and frequent as possible, and to learn as early as possible about mistakes or opportunities, both in what you build as well as how you build. So far so good. Now, there are several things you hear from teams …

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