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Take-away #2 from David Anderson’s Kanban Coaching workshop.
This post will be short and sweet. It’s not a revelation but it is a simple pattern that can support us in making the right decisions as we evolve and improve development processes.
Value trumps Flow
Flow trumps Waste reduction
Eliminate waste to improve efficiency
This mantra might be deceptively simple. We [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Take-away #1 from David Anderson’s Kanban Coaching workshop.
Kanban (as applied to software development) has created something of a buzz over the past few years growing out of a couple of case studies of David’s along with the experiences of the likes of Arlo Balshee now we have many more experiences from a variety of contexts.
Given [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
OK, I’m a little slow on the uptake here since “real work” is proving to be something of a distraction.
Last month I was fortunate enough to attend David Anderson’s Kanban Coaching Workshop. Here is how David described it:
This 3 day workshop is for experienced Agile coaches, existing Kanban practitioners, and those who have previously taken [...]
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There seems to be an increasing amount of discussion about software craftsmanship but what is it?
Thanks to Robert C. Martin for this great presentation about what it means to be a professional craftsman.
I’m sending this to everyone I can think of so I should let you know. This is recommended viewing for anyone who considers [...]
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Karl has offered this post explaining the difference between a task board and a Kanban board.
He draws attention to the common task board focus of tasks to do this iteration. No WIP limit, only tasks currently in development.
This differentiator becomes less apparent when we look at how teams develop their use of task boards. Personally [...]
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A delightful metaphor that cuts to the heart of systems thinking.
Thanks to Richard for sharing!Clipped from www.richarddurnall.comThere are two types of thinkers in the world, frog thinkers and bike thinkersThis to me is the heart of systems thinking Read more at www.richarddurnall.com
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Some insights from Jim Womack on the nature of a lean manager.Clipped from www.lean.orgTools — for process analysis and for management — are wonderful things. And they are absolutely necessary. And managers love them because they seem to provide short cuts to doing a better job. But they can’t achieve their potential results, and often [...]
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Liz haz written a great post here describing a situation where the deployment team needed to learn for to leverage the development team to achieve a more effective rout out of development into QA and live environments.
The line that made me smile was -
Ask for consistent outputs, not consistent processes
This is a big leap for [...]
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The article I’ve clipped from here is a response from John Shook to an article in the Wall Street Journal regarding a Lean transformation effort in it’s early stages at Starbucks.
But that’s not why I’ve clipped it.
The aspect of the article I wanted to draw attention to was the emphasis on the social aspects of [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
There has been some renewed discussion recently on the subject of technical debt, this has been played out on twitter as well as a variety of blog posts including this one.
The technical debt metaphor is one I use often and I believe that there is some clarification required around this subject.
At it’s broadest, technical debt [...]
