Monday, July 27, 2009
Kanban Blogosphere Roundup July 27th
This week’s roundup focuses mainly on Personal Kanban. There seems to be growing interest in this. I haven’t tried it myself yet - at least not formally though I do use some of the techniques that others have been describing in terms of balancing the number and type of activities I work on. I’ve recently reduced the time I dedicate to blogging and my web site after two months of more intense effort. It’s all about balancing a personal portfolio.
Personal Kanban
I had the pleasure of meeting Christina Skaskiw when I was in Stockholm recently. I’m delighted to see she is blogging now too. She’s been experimenting with Personal Kanban and with Pomodoro too. Go add her blog to your rss reader!
Jon Miller gives us his 30 day update on his Personal Kanban journey. Quite a lot of changes and innovation. Show the Flow!
Jim Benson has been busy with his series on Personal Kanban…
12. Cadence and the Personal Kanban
11.Every Task is Sacred
10. The Task Based Personal Kanban Approach in Detail
9. The Sequestering Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
8. The Subproject Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
7. The Throughput Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
Evolving Standups
Kevin Schlabach describes how his team was finding standup meetings tedious until they evolve to walk the board and focus on the work and not the effort individuals were expending.
Kanban for Design
Ryan Quintal shares his thoughts on using a Kanban approach for design activities on web sites and software. The picture in his post looks like it came from either my or Corey Ladas’ personal collection and was taken at Corbis. Would be nice if Ryan could share some pics from his own experience to illustrate his words.
Nate Kohari on Zen and Kanban
This podcast with Nate Kohari of Agile Zen with Scott Hanselman is interesting more from the perspective that Hanselman attributes leadership in Kanban to Jim Shore, Arlo Belshee and Kenji Hiranabe. While Kenji is from Japan, it’s this branch of the kanban systems evolution that Brian Marick has been calling Portland School Kanban. It’s worth noting that none of these folks were at the Lean & Kanban 2009 and don’t participate in the Kanbandev Yahoo! group or the Limited WIP Society. Their contribution is, however, valuable. All three of them are Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award winners. And their work goes a long way to demonstrate how a kanban system can be used with early Agile methods like Extreme Programming. Something that meets with scepticism elsewhere.
What all of this shows is that we’ve still got some work to do to pull a diverse group of folks and independent but like-minded thinking together. Hopefully, Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 in Atlanta will be an opportunity to do that. Meanwhile, Kenji will be speaking at the UK Lean Conference along with many of the regular Kanban community contributors. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Software+Engineering, Project+Management