Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Kanban Weekly Roundup - Nov 22, 2011

                                                                                                                                          By Dominica DeGrandis

Apologies for missing last week’s post.  I was completely immersed working with a team in NYC helping them design their first kanban board.  Hopefully the extra content will make up for the delay.

News

A nice post by Jason Yip, “Lean and Kanban for IT Operations: What is the Nature of the Demand?” suggests why you should be interested in predictability and how you might go about shaping demand.
http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2011/11/lean-and-kanban-for-it-operations-what_19.html

David Joyce explains why kanban adaption meets resistance from management and includes a bonus link to the 10 min satire, “I want to run an agile project”.
http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/agile-lean-and-kanban-change-management-thinking/

Esther Derby continues the discussion of the role of managers in this preview interview with Lean Magazine:
http://www.estherderby.com/2011/11/new-roles-for-managers-interview-with-lean-magazine.html

An article titled, “Scrum and Kanban: Both the same only different”, by Liz Keogh includes an especially interesting section, “Kanban visualizes what’s happening; Scrum visualizes an ideal.”  It points out that with Kanban, a key ingredient is making process policies explicit, so they can be addressed and improved upon.
http://lizkeogh.com/2011/11/20/scrum-and-kanban-both-the-same-only-different/

The “Quotable Kanban” ebook is now available on Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kanban-ebook/dp/B00679LFFW/

Here’s a fun Pecha Kucha talk on “Pimp my Board” by Arne Roock
http://www.software-kanban.de/2011/11/chocolate-bar.html

Events

AgileDayChile2011 – Occurred on Nov 17th - Keynote slides available at
http://www.slideshare.net/chileagil/intro-to-kanban-agiledaychile2011-keynote

Lean Software Systems Conference – Boston 2012
Lean Software and Systems Conference 2012 Keynote Speakers Announced
http://lssc12.leanssc.org/conference/news/

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