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Highlights from USI 2010 and Lean SSC London
June and July have been busy months. I'd like to share a few highlights from other speakers in USI 2010 in Paris and the Lean Software and Systems gathering in London on which I had the honor of presenting. Long term sustainable releases with 99%...
Experimenting with Kanban Principles at NDC 2010
At the NDC 2010 conference I ran a workshop demonstrating the principles behind Kanban (showing there is more too it than a visual workspace..) . My approach was to do it using a set of games. Anyway, here are the slides Ps: A great conference for a...
Limited WIP Stockholm #3 - Kanban from the trenches
The next Limited WIP Society meeting (Stockholm, Sweden) will be focused on experiences from the trenches. Six speakers testing Kanban will do 10min lightning talks, sharing their top 3 experiences. When: Monday May 31:st 18.00 - 20.00 Where: Avega's ...
Slides from my keynote at Agile Estonia
It was a blast meeting the Agile community in Estonia. What a vibe! More to come on that subject .) Anyway, here are my slides: "Mind over matter" CheersRead more...Tags : agile
System thinking and Kanban
This other day, I stumbled upon an article by John Seddon - "Rethinking Lean Service" which had been laying around in my disk space for a while. "Training workers against demand and ensuring they...
Kanban and Scrum book - now in french!
Me and Henrik's book have now been translated to french. Through the admirable effort of Claude Aubry, Frédér...
Converting a Scrum team to Kanban
How do you go about converting a development team from Scrum to Kanban? Can we benefit from incremental improvements in projects under high pressure? Here is a case study of a team who transformed from Scrum to Kanban and managed to save a derailing p...
Upcoming Crisp events
May 31-June 1: Kanban Training with David Anderson David Anderson was the original pioneer of Kanban in software development. Learn how to use introduce Kanban, design a working Kanban system and improve flow.This is probably be the last chance this ...
Upcoming conferences I'll be at
Here are a couple of events where you can chat, listen or just have a laugh with me :) "Converting a Scrum team to Kanban" - Lean SSC, Atlanta, April 21-23 "Mind over matter" - Agile Estonia, May 15 "Experi...
A professional mindset
Is this years final series in the Swedish hockey league, there is one team that standing out from the crowd. They are more stable, persistent and thorough in every part of their game than the other teams. Today I stumbled over this comment from one o...
The invasion of Lego robots
As a part of this weeks Kanban Applied course, the teams had to solve problems using Lego robots. It was good fun. So fun teams almost forgot about Kanban :) Programming the bot: Read more...Tags : kanban
Video from Introducing Kanban in operations
A video of my presentation at Devopsdays'09 in Belgium is now available. I didn't wear a microphone so you might need to pop up the the volume :) ...
Pair program your roadmap
Doing a road map can be a tricky thing. There are plenty of constraints and dependencies to consider: how to we balance long and short term improvements? how do we rat...
The book is out!
My and Henrik's book on is out. Get a downloadable version, or buy the full copy at InfoQ. The book includes: Foreword by Mary Poppendieck and David Anderson ...
Manage the normal - treat exception as exceptional
Ever had this thrown at you? "This production bug is unacceptable, it must never happen again!" And that event, outside your systems control, formed a policy that affected all your every day life. Failure to distinguish between uncertainty ...
Personal Kanban
Feeling busy? Not ready when the deadline approaches? Many things in action? Maybe you should consider a personal kanban. Now, I will admit the first to admit I heard about the concept I thought "but isn't slight over administration? What about j...
West vs. Japan
Why do we level out? In many agile teams I have met the introduction of Agile methods have made the teams to take a big leap. But then, after a while, they level out. Why so? Read more...Tags : kaizen
Speaker at Lean Conference, Atlanta 2010
I will present at the Lean Software & Systems Conference, April 21-13 in Atlanta. Looks like a promising event, with speakers like Don Reinertsen and David Anderson. Ps: There are some new exciting events in Stockholm this spring coming up with ...
Four strategies for dealing with breaking WIP limits
Doing kanban, there will come a point where you will be faced with holding or breaking the work in progress limit. Here are fours ways of dealing with that situation: Case1: Urgency! The new story has higher priority than work on the board. Ac...
The Manager Sanity Check
So, you're planning the future. There are is a lot of stuff you are eager to do. But stop and think - are you pushing forward in the right direction? Make sure there's a balance between: Product - what would makes up evolving in the eyes of our c...

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Re: The invasion of Lego robots
The easiest way is to contact us directly :)
Re: The invasion of Lego robots
Hello...can you give some more details on how you structured the workshop? Thanks!
Re: Slides from my keynote at Agile Estonia
Good slides. Really liked "Are you using the tool, or is it using you?" :o)
Re: Converting a Scrum team to Kanban
Well I am open to suggestions regarding better name for the title :) But, I think the title question highlights another problem. We carry different views of how to apply Scrum "right" based our context experience. An open definition is both a streng...
Re: Converting a Scrum team to Kanban
I think this is a great success story for Kanban. And I'm really delighted to see that you started by introducing TDD. However, I also feel like the title is misleading because this really was not Scrum team when you started -- they were merely preten...
Re: Converting a Scrum team to Kanban
Great article. I learned a lot of it. Basicly because we are facing some problems also, mostly with the involvement of other teams. At the end of your case study you told about the HR girl. Well I work in a HR company and we have implemented Kanban ...
Re: Upcoming conferences I'll be at
Impressive!!
Re: The invasion of Lego robots
We really had a good time!
Sverker the Reindeer...
Yes - He is back! :) ( Nice to see you Johan :)
Sverker the Reindeer...
...found a scrum paper on the developer's notice board at work, with the name "Mattias Skarin" written on it.
Re: The book is out!
Great book, good work Mattias! ;o)
Re: West vs. Japan
There are many ways of doing improvements. My point is, the attitude we have towards doing improvements, is one of the first blockers. Here we have much to learn.
Re: West vs. Japan
In scrum you usually have demo+retrospective one day and next sprint planning the day after/next week. Have you tried to have the demo one day. And retrospective + sprintplanning the next day?
Re: Four strategies for dealing with breaking WIP limits
Cool! of course interested in where you went to from there :) (at some later stage)
Re: Four strategies for dealing with breaking WIP limits
Nice post Mattias; we're starting to use Kanban for our software maintenance. We basically use the overflow concept for work that meets the criteria of an "emergency". We allw that work to overtake what was originaly a work in progress. Once that is d...
Re: Speaker at Lean Conference, Atlanta 2010
Rock 'n roll! I'll miss the conference unfortunately. My wife and I have a release that I don't want to miss, after a 9 month iteration :o)
Re: Why cycle time can tell you more than velocity
Cool!
Re: Why cycle time can tell you more than velocity
Hello Mattias, tour post is very interesting. So I've translated it in french: Pourquoi le temps de cycle peut-il en dire plus que la vélocité ? Regards, Fabrice
Re: Your Scrum is running fine, right?
Very good post, highly interesting!
Re: Scrum team converts to Kanban
The team does estimation and daily standup pretty much Scrum like. So it is kind of a Hybrid right now. What is changed is: - limit work in progress continuously instead of sprint commitment - burndown is towards release not sprint - weekly Kaizen (co...

Top 3 Tools your Scrum team can't live without

Tested tools recomended by Scrum teams I have worked with

Here are top three tools for any Scrum project

1.	Google Spreadsheets	Your backlog, anywhere & anytime. A perfect lean alternative to your Scrum board on the wall. Anywhere & anytime.
2.	Confluence Wiki	Atlassian Confluence, wiki as simple as it gets. Any user can get going in this user friendly tool.
3.	Trillian chat	Hooks up with MSN, ICQ and Yahoo. Hold live discussions going across sites. Just waiting for that Skype plugin..

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