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Finding the right Dev to Test Ratio when working in Kanban

In a previous post I started talking about the ratio between Dev and Test, and promised to revisit how it looks like in an Agile/Kanban environment. Whenever I talk to teams/managers about Kanban, whether as part of a workshop, or with a team actually practicing Kanban, the issue of testing as the bottleneck surfaces quite …

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Pictures from Kanban workshop for Managers

Today I delivered the first public Kanban workshop for managers in Israel The feedback was great overall, and there is a lot of interest in creating a community to keep taking this forward. We’ll see how to do that In the meantime see some pictures from the event over at agilesparks, thanks to Gil from …

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So what is the right ratio between developers and testers?

One of the questions I’m asked quite frequently is what is the right ratio between developers and testers. A variant on that question is what I typically see in other organizations as the ratio. Well lets answer the second variant and then try to deal with the first. Typically what we see in agilesparks customers …

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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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