Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Kanban Weekly Roundup - Jan 25, 2012

                                                                                                                            By Dominica DeGrandis

The number of #kanban tweets continues to grow with the expansion of kanban use in areas outside of software development.  From the classroom to Portfolio Mgmt, we look at some examples this week.

News

According to HashTracking.com, Twitter hashtag “#kanban” generated 70,130 impressions, reaching an audience of 52,009 followers from 97 tweets within the past 24 hours (Jan.25, 2012).  Also displayed are the top ten peeps by number of tweets, followers and impressions.  Makes for interesting data points.

Here’s a fun read about Kanban in the classroom with preschoolers.  If the teacher gets sidetracked, the kids remind her of the task she missed.
http://blog.leankitkanban.com/2012/01/guest-post-using-kanban-in-the-classroom/

Jim Collins new book, Great by Choice, is a study on winning behavior when confronted by uncertainty.  Collins compares companies that win with companies that languish.  It’s a terrific read from a Kanban practitioner’s perspective due to the uncanny parallels between the behavior of winners and key Kanban concepts for coping with risk.  I was so intrigued; I wrote a blog post on it.
http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/Blog/how_do_teams_continue_to_win_during_times_of_turmoil_and_uncertainty/

There’s been a lot of talk lately on Kanban for Portfolio Mgmt. Here’s a post on Kanban for Customer Portfolio Mgmt showing the board layout with Swift Kanban.  Intangible tasks are on a separate board which in some ways sounds appealing, but I’m wondering how they visualize priority between business tasks and intangible tasks.
http://www.valueinnova.com/?q=content/kanban-customer-portfolio-management

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 2012
http://lssc12.leanssc.org/program/

 

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