LSSC11 - My impressions/takeaways
Impressions from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2011 — sessions on flow, complexity, Kanban metrics, and the future of lean thinking in software.
Impressions from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2011 — sessions on flow, complexity, Kanban metrics, and the future of lean thinking in software.
Why arriving early to LSSC and similar lean/Kanban conferences pays dividends — conversations in the hallway before sessions start are where the real learning happens.
What is Lean Product Development Flow? An introduction for people trying to improve end-to-end delivery, manage queues better, and make flow visible beyond a single team.
Why Kanban surfaces the bottleneck constraint instead of hiding it — and why this is actually a feature, not a bug. How to use the weakest link as a forcing function for systemic improvement.
How to add iteration/sprint mechanics to the getKanban board game — making it a useful simulation for comparing time-boxed and flow-based approaches side by side.
Kanban classes of service solve the coordination problem between generalist and specialist roles. How to use them to manage shared dependencies without creating bottlenecks.