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Toyota's journey from Waterfall to Lean software development
Guess what. Toyota uses the waterfall method for software development – and now they’re trying to figure out how to go Lean. Surprised? So was I! Read on... Read more...Tags : japan agile waterfall toyota lean
Leading Lean Software Development with Mary Poppendieck
On March 4-5 Tom & Mary Poppendieck will once again come to Stockholm and teach a lean course with me. "Leading Lean Software Development" is aimed at leaders in organisations that are serious about succeeding with Lean software developme...
Scrum Checklist translated to Russian, Japanese, German, and Portuguese
I'm happy to say that my Scrum Checklist has been translated to several languages: Russian (thanks Alexander Plutalov) Japanese (thanks Yasunobu Kawaguchi) German (thanks Marc Bless) Portuguese (thanks Demetrius Nunes) Tags...
Agile - ett verktyg, inte ett mål
Here are the slides from my breakfast seminar "Agile - ett verktyg inte ett mål" (= "Agile - a tool, not a goal"), hosted by DSDM Consortium. The presentation was in Swedish but the slides are in English. This is more or les...
Interviewed on Agile Zone about Kanban and Scrum and XP
I was interviewed by Mitch Pronschinske on Agile Zone, this turned into two articles: Kanban isn't better than Scrum, it's just smaller Scrum and XP are new - their principles are not I think Mitch did a good job of turning the interview int...
Kanban vs Scrum video in Swedish
Here's a video recording of my 10 minute lightning talk "Kanban vs Scrum, a practical guide" at Agila Sverige June 8, 2009. It is basically a 10 minute summary of my book "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both". NOTE - the rec...
Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
My new book "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both" is done! The purpose of this book is to clear up the fog, so you can figure out how Kanban and Scrum might be useful in your environment. The book includes: Foreword by Mary Po...
Traditional Chinese version of Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Here's a Traditional Chinese translation of my book Scrum and XP from the Trenches (not same as Chinese translation). Thanks Ko Jen-Chieh! The other 8 translations are listed on the InfoQ page for the book. Feel free to email me (henrik.kniberg AT...
Agile Alliance Board reception
If you are near Atlanta and want to meet me and the rest of the Agile Alliance board feel free to come to our Agile Alliance Board Reception on wednesday evening! We’ll host a winter holiday networking reception for Agile Alliance members, partn...
Kanban and Scrum - a practical guide
Here the the slides from my presentation "Kanban and Scrum - a practical guide" from QCon in San Francisco today. The presentation is mostly pictures. If you are curious about what I was saying, check out the free online book "Kanban and Scru...
Kanban kick-start example
Here is a detailed example of a fairly typical 2-tier Kanban board, for teams that know the basics of Kanban and are taking their first steps towards implementing it in practice. Translations: German It is sort of like a code example, or a condense...
What is Agile (Agile Tour keynote)
Here are the slides from my "What is Agile" keynote at Agile Tour 2009 in Grenoble. Sample slide: Take-away points: Agile is a set of values & principles that help you succeed with software development Agile is not...
Cause-effect diagrams
Here's a new article for you: Cause-effect diagrams: a pragmatic way of doing root-cause analysis Cause-effect diagrams are a simple and pragmatic way of doing root cause analysis. I’ve been using these diagrams for years to help organizati...
A3 Problem Solving template and example
For those of you interested in Lean problem solving techniques, Tom Poppendieck and I have created an A3 problem solving example and template. Feel free to use as you please. Tags : tools tom-poppendieck problem-solving a3 lean
Kanban training Sep 24-25 with David Anderson
If you're interested in Kanban I can recommend this course in Stockholm, there are still a few spots left. If you don't know what Kanban is you might take a look at: http://www.limitedwi...
Scrum Checklist - version 2.0
Check out Scrum Checklist version 2.0! Tags : tools agile checklists scrum
Scrum intro
Here are the slides for my 90 minute session "Introduction to Scrum" at Agile 2009 in Chicago in a couple of weeks. The slide deck is mostly pictures and intended primarily for presentation use, not reading. So this stuff will probably make ...
Running for the Agile Alliance board
I was recently invited to run for the board of directors of the Agile Alliance. After some initial hesitation I decided to go for it! The election will be held at the Agile 2009 conference on Tuesday, August 25 at 6:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel...
One day in Kanban land
Translations: Brazilian Portuguese French German Tags : comics agile lean kanban
The Thinking Tool called Agile
Here are the slides from my keynote at Integrating Agile 2009, Amsterdam. First three slides are below, the rest are in the PDF document. Take-away points: Know your goal Agile is a tool, not a goal Tools don't fail or suc...

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Re: Toyota's journey from Waterfall to Lean software development
Hi Henrik, I developed software a few years back at Toyota's European headquarters in Brussels - and yep, pure waterfall there too. This was business process software and nothing to do with on-board car software and yet they still insisted on waterfall...
Re: Toyota's journey from Waterfall to Lean software development
Henrik, Thank you for publishing this! It is excellently presented and extremely interesting. I think it is great both that (a) Toyota was so willing to openly share their "warts and all" approach and aspirations with you, and (b) you wrote about ...
Re: Toyota's journey from Waterfall to Lean software development
Hej Henrik, just wanted to thank you for an excellent write-up! I've never been to Japan myself, but would love to go there. See you! /Tobbe
Re: Index card generator - version 2!
Hi Henrik, I'm implementing Scrum in an organisation and would really like to use your Index Card Generator for the Product Backlog. However, we've tried it on various platforms but keep getting the same error when trying to generate the index cards: ...
Re: Leading Lean Software Development with Mary Poppendieck
Probably not. But we have more events like this coming up in the future. Keep an eye on my blog.
Re: Leading Lean Software Development with Mary Poppendieck
Hi, being in france, no chance to come. Will it be possible to get anything out of it anyway ?
Re: Kanban vs Scrum
Great article, thanks for sharing!
Re: Kanban vs Scrum
Hi Henrik, I have referenced this post in an article I just published, from Scrum to Kanban. This is a great post and thanks for sharing.
Re: Kanban training Sep 24-25 with David Anderson
that's really a fantastic post ! added to my favourite blogs list.. I have been reading your blog last couple of weeks and enjoy every bit. Thanks.
Re: Scrum Checklist translated to Russian, Japanese, German, and Portuguese
I am a volunteer to traslate it to spanish. E-mail me and tell me how to do it.
Классификация фауны Agile консультантов
Я уже писал о людях, которые помогают командам. А недавно мне попалась статья Хенрика Книберга, автора книги “Scrum and XP from the trenches”, где он приводит свою классификацию консультантов. Я решил перевести ее на русский язык, чем собс...
Re: Scrum Checklist translated to Russian, Japanese, German, and Portuguese
Thanks for finding typo. It has been corrected with two other typos. New version uploaded and ready for usage. Have fun and keep it simple!
Re: Scrum Checklist translated to Russian, Japanese, German, and Portuguese
there is a typo in the german translation: "Ganzes Team kennt oberste 1-3 Hinternisse" should be: "Ganzes Team kennt oberste 1-3 Hindernisse" (replace t with d in Hinternisse)
Re: Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
Glad to hear! It will probably work well as a frisbee or a doorstop. Not sure about using it as a mouse mat though, too slippery. :oP
Re: Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both
Hi Henrik, just finished reading this book. Will try to use it in my project. :)
Re: Index card generator - version 2!
thanks for the script.. we have a different format for our story cards and i have modified the script accordingly.. pretty useful stuff.. thanks again!!
Re: One day in Kanban land
Great!! Innovative idea of describing Kanban. Thanks.
Re: One day in Kanban land
I have also a demonstration of Kanban coming and these I was planning to show as well. I've worked with Scrum and Kanban now for a year and eventually starting to get the big picture :) Your work has both helped and inspired me a lot and for that I sal...
Re: One day in Kanban land
Thanks for your feedback, glad the comic was useful to you! And good work with the translation.
Re: One day in Kanban land
While introducing kanban, I showed this to them. They got the idea very quickly and enjoyed it. Thank you for great work :) (I'm one of the Korean translators of your Scrum and XP Book)

Scrum checklist

Are you really doing Scrum?

NOTE - this checklist is deprecated. The latest version is here.

Here's a first draft of a simple checklist for those of you that are doing Scrum (or believe so...).

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