Often when I introduce Kanban to teams that are just getting familiar with Scrum, one of the first comments I’ll get is… it looks a lot like waterfall. So, here is the question, is Kanban just waterfall with small batches? Let’s say you kept all yo…
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Okay… time to wrap this thing up. If you missed any of the first three ‘Noodling on Kanban’ posts… I included links at the bottom of this one… just to make it easy on you guys
There is clearly much more to this topic than I wanted to try and …
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Earlier today we noodled on the secret sauce… maybe even THE most important value add… of implementing a Kanban system. Kanban gives us a very visual way of identifying and elevating the constraints in our system. The ONLY way to really get a tea…
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Okay… time for part two in my Noodling on Kanban mini-series.Yesterday we talked about the Kanban board and how it was similar, but not the same, as the Scrum task board. We also talked about work in process limits and how they can be used to explic…
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For the next few posts I want to explore some of my thoughts on Kanban. Like many in the community, I started thinking more about this during the Lean/Kanban Conference down in Miami. On the heels of that conference I did an exploratory post on some …
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A video with Derick and the guys at LosTechies teaching the devlicio.us team about Kanban, live. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://pablotv.lostechies.com/screencasts/dbailey/Adopting%20Kanban%201/Adopting%20Kanban%201.html
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It’s Sunday morning and I’m enjoying my first cup of coffee of the day… decided it was time to do the third installment of my “Interesting Post…” update. Every week I am amazed at the amount of great content out there just to be had for the taking…
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A practical blog post listing possible real-life reasons to switch to Kanban tool (as opposed to being guided by wrong assumptions of Kanban usage). [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2009/08/5-right-reasons-to-apply-kanban.html
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A warning against taking a tool (kanban in this case) as a remedy for management problems. 5 reasons you should NOT take into account when switching to Kanban. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2009/08/5-wrong-reasons-to-apply-kanban.html
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