Posted on March 20, 2012 by Mattias Skarin.
Last month market the launch of the Kanban Accreditation scheme. Let’s give our view including why we have chosen to engage ourselves as members of the advisory board.
Why the Kanban accreditation scheme?
Kanban is a word that needs meaning. So what meaning do we want people to connect with the word? This matters (to us..) . Stumbling upon about kanban classes declaring it will help you “resource optimize” it makes me think there is a need. (To any unfamiliar reader.. kanban helps you improve flow, quite a different thing..)
Any accredited class will contain some core messages that we care to share. The best way we could think of to make sure that messages is good was to engage ourselves in the process 
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Posted on December 5, 2011 by Mattias Skarin.
I’ve updated the ol’ 10 kanban board samples. Some additions:
- From marketing to released product – sample kanban board
- Release manager kanban
- Operations – online platform maintenance
You’ll find the kanban samples here.
/Mattias
ps: new link! If you get “file is damaged” – try to reload page once.
Posted on November 5, 2011 by Mattias Skarin.
Back from Zurich. I presented at the ReForum, a gathering for requirement engineers and product owners, arranged by SAQ. My topic was “Exploring requirement options with kanban” and more specific, what you can do if you do have a more complex development scenario (ie. large customer base, not just one team..)
I always enjoy coming back with some fresh ideas and in my case it was the “world coffee”. I liked the balance between facilitation and curiosity.
World Coffee in action
Wold coffee
Even I got a vote!
Anyway, here are the slides!
Posted on October 18, 2011 by Hans Brattberg.
I had a conversation with some of my colleagues** about what makes a good daily stand-up, here are some properties:
- Time-boxed (15 minutes)
- Everyone is engaged
- Synchronization is taking place
- Attention to problems
- People ask for help
- The conversation is about stuff that matters to most people, individual issues are postponed
- Anyone can lead the meeting, not just the Scrum Master / Team Coach
- The meeting is the starting point for the day, afterwards everyone feels energized and can start working right away
- Ends with a punch that marks the end of the meeting and the start of the day*
* The team has dumbells by the scrum board. The rule is that if you feel the current speaker is monopolizing the meeting, you can hand the speaker a dumbell. Now the speaker can keep talking only as long as they can hold up the dumbbell with an outstretched arm.
** Thanks to Alexander Tarnowski, Jan Grape, Reza Farhang and Yassal Sundman.
Posted on September 26, 2011 by Mattias Skarin.
Hi
Here is a short of events where I’ll teach or speak this autumn:
Ps: Hope to be able to spend one day at least at Less 2011, right at the doorstep. Would like to learn more about beyond budgeting.
