Dipping your toes into kanban agile2011

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dipping your toes into kanban @davidjbland #agile2011

description

This lightning talk will illustrate how a real world agile team working within two week iterations began using work in progress limits to increase focus, foster collaboration and manage flow.

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dipping your toes

into kanban

@davidjbland#agile2011

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kanbanpronounced [kahn-bahn]

not [kayun-bayun]

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kanban 101

make work visiblelimit work in progresshelp work to flow

http://www.kanban101.com

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we already work in iterations...

can we use kanban?

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yes you can!

kanban is applied to what you already do.

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our story

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2 week iterations

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open every story

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jump from story to story

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swarming...?

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problems with focus

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mistakes...

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inspect and adapt

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wip limit on open stories

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much better focus

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much better flow

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fewer issues

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enabled pairing& conversation

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revisit wip limiteach retrospective

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i proposed idea of removing wip limit

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i barely made it out alive

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@davidjbland