A brief introduction to Lean/Kanban ideas, to help appreciate and extend what you already know about agile/Scrum. Presented at Seattle Code Camp 2015.

1. Cheryl Hammond
@bsktcase
Northwest Cadence
cheryl.hammond@nwcadence.com
lean for agilists

2. me
Cheryl Hammond
16+ years’ experience in software
development, team leadership, and
organizational transformation
Passionate about agile, lean, and
making software delivery humane;
not afraid to look silly doing it
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Speaker at Agile Games 2015, ALM
Forum, TechEds 2013, Agile 2015 …
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3. agreements and asks
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4. law of two feet

5. topics
Water-Scrum-fall
History of agile & lean
Connections
Extensions
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6. why?

8. water-scrum-fall
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9. a better way

10. a very brief history of agile & lean
XP, 1999
Agile Manifesto, 2001
TPS, 1953
The Toyota Way, 2001
Kanban, 2010
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11. return to the principles
Stop trying to teach them agile;
teach yourself lean.
Agile works
because it’s lean.
Lean works
because it’s math.
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12. alignments

13. potato, potahto
agile lean
Welcome change Embrace variability
Self-organization Respect for people
Sprint Batch size
Sprint backlog Limit Work in Process (WIP)
Remove impediments Eliminate waste
YAGNI Just-in-time
Product owner, stack ranking Economic prioritization
DevOps Jidoka
Inspect and adapt Safe-to-fail experiments
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14. …and beyond

15. value
Busy-ness (utilization) doesn’t create value
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16. visualize work

17. queues
Queues are expensive
Queues make you look bad
Queues are evil
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18. case study: queues

22. strategies

23. you want the same things
Limit work in process
They get: lower cycle times, less waste
You get: less context-switching, lower stress
Deliver small items frequently
They get: fast feedback, accommodate change
You get: fast feedback, manage risk
Build quality in
They get: stakeholder happiness, more time for features
You get: maintainability, more trust
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24. speak their language
Agile  lean
Work in process
Reduce waste
Cycle time
Lean  simplify
Fast feedback
Focus
Finish what we start
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25. questions?

26. Cheryl Hammond
@bsktcase
Northwest Cadence
cheryl.hammond@nwcadence.com
thank you!