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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Kanban For OPS: The Power Of Case Studies

By Dominica DeGrandis

I joined Daniel Vacanti last week in Seattle for his Kanban training class for Software Engineering. During much of the past year, my focus has been teaching Kanban-for-Ops (Operations) classes, and I had forgotten how the two subjects differ in their curricula.

One of the more significant differences is the inclusion of case studies of ops teams using Kanban. While teaching ops classes and attending tech conferences in both the U.S. and Europe, I was able to collect a variety of fascinating stories from various technology companies using Kanban in ops.