Teams - Yeret Agility

Making Agile Teams work in real life – The quest for Stable Feature Teams?

By Yuval Yeret|2014-08-07T16:28:05-04:00August 7, 2014|Blog, Change Management, Management, Scrum, Teams|

Context This post is inspired by ongoing discussions in the AgileSparks team based on our experience trying to help organizations make agile teams work in real life. It is heavily inspired or can even be called a revision of a post from a couple of years ago on the Lean/Kanban approach to teams. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, you can find "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams" Scrum, the most popular framework for implementing agile [...]

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Linking Team Modes to RightShifting

By Yuval Yeret|2011-10-25T08:40:30-04:00October 25, 2011|Agile, kanban, Teams|

What is Rightshifting? When I looked at the program for Lean Kanban Benelux 2011 I found a couple of sessions talking about something I wasn't familiar with - RightShifting. Since I had to speak at the same time, I didn't have a chance to go check it out. Come Lean Kanban Central Europe 2011 I saw another session on RightShifting, again a conflict - this time with my Pecha Kucha talk. But I was curious enough to try and check it out, [...]

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Lean/Kanban approach to Teams

By Yuval Yeret|2011-10-22T08:38:42-04:00October 22, 2011|Agile, Blog, Export, kanban|

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 Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team. Cross-functional teams [...]

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My Large Scale Kanban talk at Lean Kanban Central Europe 2011 Conference

By Yuval Yeret|2011-10-18T07:32:17-04:00October 18, 2011|Events, kanban|

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 the work" not just "when to pull what" Kanban doesn't prescribe teams, but what kind of team formation / organizational structure works best? Explored several [...]

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