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"
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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...
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:
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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 :)
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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
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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?
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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...
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: 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 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 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: 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...