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1	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...	Jun 17, 2010
2	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 ...	May 25, 2010
3	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...	May 11, 2010
4	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...	May 6, 2010
5	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...	Apr 27, 2010
6	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 ...	Apr 21, 2010
7	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...	Apr 15, 2010
8	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:	Feb 24, 2010
9	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 :) ...	Jan 26, 2010
10	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 ...	Dec 22, 2009
11	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...	Dec 1, 2009
12	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 ...	Nov 17, 2009
13	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...	Nov 9, 2009
14	Devopsdays'09 My slides from Devopsdays'09 in Belgium. It is inspiring to see the number of system administrators looking into Kanban. Myself I discovered Cucumber scripting. ...	Nov 6, 2009
15	Know your continuous improvement Continuous improvement ( "kaizen") is a core process within Kanban and/or Scrum. But what does it mean? Here is an A3 I use to explain the concept	Oct 11, 2009
16	Why cycle time can tell you more than velocity Take a look at this chart and tell us how we are doing? Team velocity of a the Starship team. Number are weeks, the colors represents different categories of work. It is quite hard... There are too many variables distorting our data. Do we having ...	Sep 6, 2009
17	Stop runaway meetings with the timeout sign Sometimes it is hard to stop a running meeting. You might have someone so fond of talking he doesn't realize time is up. Or the daily stand up has gone haywire. How do you break in, politely? Teach everyone the timeout sign. "hey, let me get ba...	Sep 3, 2009
18	Your Scrum is running fine, right? Your team is coding along, sprints are passing by, your somewhere around sprint 15.. life is ok.. ..or? As a famous test leader once said: "Team are happily completing sprints but nothing gets's done" Here are a couple of things to look out...	Sep 1, 2009
19	Learn Kanban from the source - Kanban Jedi training class On September 24-25:th in Stockholm, there is a chance to learn Kanban directly from the source! Kanban is framework to help improve efficiency and continuous learning, but with a very light weight footprint. It works both in- and outside software env...	Aug 27, 2009
20	It is not the process, it's the improvements For those of you who wonder "why would anybody convert a Scrum team to Kanban" (see earlier blog) - it is important that you understand the true intent. (..yes there is one! :) What expected output do you have from a process framework? Thi...	Aug 24, 2009