Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Kanban Weekly Roundup - Feb 8, 2012

                                                                                                                            By Dominica DeGrandis

A short list this week, but a powerful concept - we look at the benefit of team metrics vs. Individual metrics. 

There will be an interlude with the Kanban Weekly Roundup next week - I will be in Budapest co-training a class with David Anderson.  David will be covering Kanban for Software Engineering and I will be speaking on Kanban for IT Operations.

News

This post on the benefit of team metrics affirms my strong belief for looking at results from the whole organization versus individuals. Vin D’Amico (@BrainsLink) states is well,” teams deliver successful enterprise outcomes, not individuals”.  If you read my Devops article, you know that I’m a strong proponent of finding common goals across development and operations teams.  While establishing team-based metrics is a vast improvement over individual metrics (and individual merit reviews), bumping metrics up to the organizational level can lead to optimizing organization wide results. 
http://brainslink.com/2012/02/to-be-agile-establish-team-metrics-not-individual-ones/

Events

The Inaugural Cynefin, Agile & Lean Mashup (CALM) – London, UK Feb 16 -17, 2012
http://calm.eventbrite.com/

Agile and Beyond Conference - Dearborn, MI.  March 10, 2012
http://agileandbeyond.org/

Lean Kanban Southern Europe - Madrid, May 9-10, 2012
http://lkse12.leanssc.org/

Lean Software Systems Conference – Boston, May 13-18, 2012
http://lssc12.leanssc.org/

Resources

Lean Kanban University (LKU)
http://www.leankanbanuniversity.com/

Kanbanops
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbanops/

Kanbandev
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbandev/

Limited WIP Society
http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/

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