Kanban, Lean and Agile mysteries
Mattias Skarin
Crisp Hackday is under way!
April 27, 2012 – 11:03 am
The safety belt is off. Focus is intense. Standup? Tdd? Rubbish! Crisp hack day! 
Insights from Innovation games with Luke Hohmann
April 24, 2012 – 11:12 pm
I got the chance to meet Luke, the founder of innovation games this week. I find his view refreshing – humans are basically creative. We need to provide the platform for ideas to emerge. Some of my reflections after listening to the stories:
- It’s serious play, these games shape the outcome of of real products for companies like Cisco today
- I was a bit skeptical about trying them online, but I find they can provide alternatives to retrospectives for distributed teams.
- It is as much about the reasons we reveal for our choices, as the games itself.
- I find the games can help developers (and product owners) learn about the (unspoken) needs of market segments and user groups. Understanding the rationale of their choices is key to designing a good solution.
- If I was a sales person, I’d jump on them right away. Way more fun than death by power point.
Here’s me asking some questions to Luke.
Slides from SDC2012 – Modern product development principles
April 16, 2012 – 2:02 pm
Just finished my session at SDC 2012 where I’m arguing for less hierarchy and economically aligned decision rules that enables local teams to do tradeoffs. Mary Poppendieck commented it as “traditional product management”. Maybe that’s where we are heading
Anyway, here are the slides
Make it possible; change your statement into a question
April 11, 2012 – 2:07 pm
Not long ago I met with a manager who during a discussion ruled out the possibility of success of a solution. I was a bit surprised and afterwards asked why that was not doable. It turned out one of the reasons was the manager was afraid the team would kick off with unrealistic expectations and leave disappointed. I pointed out that we won’t ever get there unless we try.
There is an easy way of getting both: change your statement into a question. This will trigger an intellectual challenge and proof that people have a viable idea. In short: It enables more options.
Turn:
“It can’t be done” – into – “why is that hard”?
The solution we have are only limited by the questions we are asking.
The Kanban Accreditation scheme and why choose to be involved
March 20, 2012 – 12:33 am
Last month market the launch of the Kanban Accreditation scheme. Let’s give our view including why we have chosen to engage ourselves as members of the advisory board.
Why the Kanban accreditation scheme?
Kanban is a word that needs meaning. So what meaning do we want people to connect with the word? This matters (to us..) . Stumbling upon about kanban classes declaring it will help you “resource optimize” it makes me think there is a need. (To any unfamiliar reader.. kanban helps you improve flow, quite a different thing..)
Any accredited class will contain some core messages that we care to share. The best way we could think of to make sure that messages is good was to engage ourselves in the process
