The Kanban Story - Ups and Downs of Implementing Kanban

The Kanban StoryUps and Downs of Implementing Kanban
Starring
Pawel Brodzinski as Narrator
The Team as Themselves

Once Upon a Time In Central Europe
Once upon a time in central Europe there was a small cross-functional team, which striven after building good software despite issues they faced along the way…

In the Meantime In Alternative Reality…
…there was a team which dealt with maintenance projects…
…there was a team which was doing project fire fighting all the time trying to escape a death march…
…there was a team with crazy product manager changing his mind all the time…
…there was a team working on multiple concurrent small projects…

Underground
Allegedly
high-quality
software
Never-finished tasks
Ever-changing priorities
Chaotic product management

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Kanban But Were Afraid to Ask
Henrik Kniberg &
Mattias Skarin
http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook

It Happened One Night
Single afternoon, 3 rules, 1 tool

The Kanban Is Not Enough
Garbage in – garbage out
Kanban is not a project management methodology

Toy Story

In the Meantime In Alternative Reality…
Adjust tools for people, not people for tools
There is no such thing as the best engineering approach

Groundhog Day

Sherlock Holmes
The puzzle:
How should we do (insert pretty much anything here)?
The answer:
I don’t know, experiment!

The Incredibles
Co-location!
No-meeting culture
Best engineering practices

Monsters, Inc.
Version control
Deployment
Code ownership
Product management
Setting right limits

Love Actually
If you happen to
hate unnecessary formalisms
work in a small team of disciplined engineers
experience priority changes all the time
avoid implementing methods by the book
start simple and improve over time
you may actually fall in love with Kanban

No Country For Old Men
If you happen to
follow detailed process of the rest of your organization
work with engineers who don’t care much about craftsmanship
work with primadonnas
be a part of distributed team
avoid experimenting
you may find you are too ‘old’ for Kanban country

Based on a true story http://blog.brodzinski.com/2009/10/kanban-story.html
Pawel Brodzinski
pawel.brodzinski@gmail.com
http://blog.brodzinski.com
http://twitter.com/pawelbrodzinski
http://vsoft.pl

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The Kanban Story - Ups and Downs of Implementing Kanban

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