Saturday, August 01, 2009
Kanban Blogosphere Roundup August 1st
The guys at Silverstripe in India have their own version of how to migrate from Scrum to Kanban.
Customer demand is finally driving the major tools vendors to respond and supply Kanban features in their product. Here David Laribee demonstrates on video, the shiny new Kanban features in the VersionOne product. This is very significant. It’s the first tool that allows a company to manage Kanban initiatives within a portfolio that includes other Agile projects using methods like Scrum and XP. Apparently, customers are tell the folks at VersionOne that they want to use Kanban for product maintenance and upgrade releases with Scrum for new green-field projects. If this is true then, due to the fact that around 80% of all software development is maintenance and product upgrades, we should see significantly more adoption of Kanban over the next 10 years.
Stephan Schmidt has released a thin eBook that is available as a free download - 12 Things You can do do to shorten Lead Time and Time to Market in Software Development. It doesn’t explicitly mention Kanban but does talk about visualizing and managing flow. Much of sentiment of the message is encapsulated in what we know as Kanban.
Stefan Rusek has announced a Kanban plug-in for FogBugz! Woohoo! FogBugz is a popular work tracking tool and now you Joel Spolsky fans can Kanban too. Yes you kan!
Mike Suarez is introducing Kanban at his workplace. He refers to it on his blog as the Coolban process. One of the rules is that no one is allowed to talk about Kanban 
I love this! Introduce process changes because you need them and they will help. No need to label them. I have to label Kanban so you can all follow it and learn it but no need to label it when introducing it on your team. Just do it!
Coolban Part 1 - Enter Kanban
Coolban Part 2 - Meet the Column
Coolban Part 3 - Welcome to Coolban!
And finally, Jim Benson is still advancing the Person Kanban meme…
Post 15: Visualizing the Flow - Polar State Based Personal Kanban with Habit Trackers
Post 14: Personal Kanban and Existential Overhead
Post 13: The MAN THAT WAS AWFUL approach to Personal Kanban
I suspect that this will become the topic for Jim’s second book when he finishes his current manuscript on social media, Instant Karma! Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Software+Engineering, Project+Management