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Finding the right Dev to Test Ratio when working in Kanban
In a previous post I started talking about the ratio between Dev and Test, and promised to revisit how it looks like in an Agile/Kanban environment. Whenever I talk to teams/managers about Kanban,...
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Can lanes be skipped in a kanban board?
A question in a recent kanban workshop was how to deal with the fact that some work has different workflow than others For example: Features need to go to testing after implementation Escalation cases...
View ArticleThe Ant and the Grasshopper – Application for product development
I’m sure everyone is familiar with some version of the The Ant and the Grasshopper (or הצרצר_והנמלה) While talking to a Product Manager today, I was asked “How come we always end up without QA...
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Why I think Slack is highly important during an Agile/Kanban transition
Actually, the title is wrong. I think Slack is highly important during any change initiative where you expect continuous improvement of the process and practices. The importance of Slack is not new....
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Kanban early warning using a predictive variant of SPC
A Confession. While I'm a great fan of using SPC charts to explore specific cycle times and reduce variation / continuously improve a Kanban System (a great blog by benjamin mitchell), I'm only seeing...
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MMF driven sprints in a Kanban world
The more experience I get with Kanban, and the more I talk about it with people, I see that one of the main challenges is maintaining some form of goal-driven cadence that energizes the team. If every...
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Encouraging Feature-level progress tracking in Kanban
One of the key questions project managers and senior management in general ask themselves and their teams on an ongoing basis is - "Are we on track to deliver the scope we committed to, on time". In...
View ArticleWant my elevator-pitch answer to what is Kanban for a Scrum rookie?
Our coaching team at agilesparks runs into this question a lot. Many of the teams we are working with are familiar with Scrum and using it. Other teams are just now going into Scrum. Since kanban...
View ArticleWant to improve effectiveness of Product Management? Here are some ideas for...
I recently worked on some measures/metrics that help answer the question "How effective is our product management process, and how is it contributing/affecting the overall performance of our product...
View ArticleLean/Agile Testing
I've been a bit quiet lately on the blog front (as well as twitter for those who are following) Mainly I've been busy preparing an Agilesparks Agile Testing training with Ronen Bar Nahor. While a lot...
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Collaborating with specialized roles using kanban classes of service
I want to share a solution I came up with together with a team of performance / non-functional testing, working in a product group in a large enterprise. This solution deals with the challenge of...
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LeanSSC/Kanban US conference 2011 – #LSSC11 – Are you coming?
The Lean Software and Systems Consortium US-based community conference will be May 3-6 next year, in Long Beach California. I'll be there, talking about "Using Kanban and CFD to effectively manage...
View ArticleHighlight slides from the Agilesparks Kanban for Managers Workshop
Last week I ran another round of our Kanban for Managers workshop. So far, I'm excited about the feedback I read and hear. I think Kanban is making sense to people, and any role we as consultants can...
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How I would simulate time-boxed agile in the @getkanban kanban board game
At Agilesparks we’ve recently been using the Kanban Board Game developed by Russell Heally (@getkanban) quite extensively. We use it as part of Kanban courses, sessions for Scrum teams that want to...
View ArticleNext public Kanban workshop I’m delivering – on Feb 8 2011
The next public Kanban workshop in israel is coming up in just a few weeks – also see http://agilesparks.com/kanban+for+managers What can you expect? Well, you might want to go check out the syllabus...
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The Agile Lowest Common Denominator – Avoiding a slowdown due to the weakest...
One of the concerns often raised when people hear about kanban is that the weakest/slowest link will slow down the whole chain. For example if testing is a bottleneck what will happen is that the whole...
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Webinar LSSC11: Session 4 – Intro to Lean Product Development Flow
I’ve been asked to deliver a pre-LSSC11 webinar on the topic of Lean Product Development flow. I’m going to introduce an approach to mixing Lean and Agile in order to achieve end to end agility. This...
View ArticleI’m a nominee for the Lean Software and Systems 2011 Brickell Key Award!
Lean Software and Systems – 2011 Brickell Key Award Nominees. I’m so humbled by it and by the great cadre of nominees I’m considered with, don’t have much to say … Just that I hope this will help...
View ArticleAgileIL11 is over, what an exciting event! my Slides for Secrets of Flow are...
For those interested in my talk about Secrets of Flow, here it is: see some pictures from the event as well:
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Reasons to come early to conferences, or at least to LSSC Lean Software and...
Its early wednesday, I’m at Long Beach for LSSC11 - the main US conference for the Lean Software Systems Consortium also at LimitedWIPSociety.org – the community practicing and leading Lean and Kanban...
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