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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	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
2	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
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	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
7	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
8	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
9	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
10	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
11	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
12	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
13	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
14	Scrum team converts to Kanban At a customers site, teams have been using Scrum for year or more (even the sales people run it :) Developers are talented and motivated. In one team, increased visibility was needed, so I helped them convert to Kanban. A second team took noticed on w...	Jun 27, 2009
15	Release and project burndown tracking Sometimes I work in projects where team uses sprints, but deliverables are compiled over multiple sprints. In these cases, I have found it handy to do simple Release / Project burndown tracking. It helps facilitate a discussion with client and project ...	Jun 10, 2009
16	Takeways from Future of Agile Experience the humbleness and energy of so many people in one single place was a great experience. I would have liked to stay longer just do discuss and share experiences. Takeaways: As Agile practitioners, we need to continue to evolve ...	May 29, 2009
17	Resources for Lean Software Development I held a seminar at NFI today "Introduction to Lean Software Development". Afterwards, I got the question "where is a good starting point to learn more?" - and realized that while there is new material, much is still "in work&q...	May 14, 2009
18	Learnings from Kanban and Lean conference I attended the Lean & Kanban conference last week. The first of it's kind, a big boost of energy and I certainly hope to see more on this subject. It was striking how, in case after case, the simple introduction of visual management and matching ...	May 13, 2009
19	Kanban in 5 min I have updated the original quick reference originally created for system administration teams now to focus on introducing Kanban. A two page A4 visual of "what is it all about". So here is Kanban in 5 min.	Apr 29, 2009
20	Roots of Lean, quick summary Back from Japan! It was a very learning week. Among other we met Manager for Toyota automotive software CEO of Fujitsu Siemens Software Representatives from the Agile community in Japan Agile pioneers such as Eiwa and Azzuri C...	Apr 27, 2009