Mattias Skarin's blog
Kanban, Lean and Agile mysteries
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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...