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The Kanban Survivability Agenda

This third and last article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model explores the survivability agenda. The values associated with this agenda are understanding, agreement, and respect; these say much about the philosophy that underlies Kanban, the humane, start with what you do now approach to change.

Mike Burrows
on Feb 20, 2014
3 years of Kanban at Sandvik IT: The Story of an Improvement Journey

This is the story of an enterprise-wide Kanban implementation. It explains why Sandvik IT chose the Kanban method; how it was deployed using a kick-start concept; how it was followed-up using a depth-of-kanban assessment; and the effects so far. The article includes links to concrete and step-by-step information on how to run these kick-starts and assessments

Christophe Achouiantz
on Feb 10, 2014
Kanban’s service orientation agenda

This second article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model explores the service orientation agenda. Building on the sustainability agenda, this agenda adds the values of customer focus, flow, and leadership. Individually, each of these brings some challenge; collectively, they can represent to a significant sense of direction, a much more outward-looking approach to change.

Mike Burrows
on Jan 29, 2014
The Sustainability Agenda in Kanban

This first article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model, explores the sustainability agenda: a common approach to Kanban adoption at the level of individuals and teams, often motivated by the need for relief from unsustainable practices and workloads. This sustainability agenda draws on the Kanban values transparency, balance, and collaboration.

Mike Burrows
on Jan 06, 2014
Tracking Schedule Progress in Agile

The challenge of knowing whether we are on track to deliver haunts projectmanagers and developmentmanagers at various levels as their organizations take on agile approaches to product and project development. Driving towards smaller work items and lower work in process brings the benefits of both better project risk management as well as more effective agile execution and learning.

Yuval Yeret
on Jan 01, 2014
Applying Lean Thinking to Software Development

Lean’s major concept is about reducing waste, meaning anything in your production cycle that is not adding value to the customer is considered waste and should therefore be removed from the process. Steven Peeters explains how you can apply Lean principles in an IT environment.

Steven Peeters
on Dec 05, 2013
InfoQ Interviews David J. Anderson at Lean Kanban 2013 Conference

If they were to carve a new Mt. Everest into the mountains surrounding Silicon Valley, then alongside Dijkstra, Kernighan, The Three Amigos and The Gang of Four they would need to make room for David J. Anderson, father of Kanban in the software development industry. The Lean Kanban Conference took place in downtown Chicago last week, and InfoQ interviewed Anderson.

Victor Grazi
on May 09, 2013
Implementing Kanban in Practice

At the Lean Kanban conference, InfoQ asked Dr. Arne Roock how a team can evaluate whether Kanban is the right tool, and how to kick it off. Dr. Roock offers some prescriptive advice.

Victor Grazi
on May 01, 2013
Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson, pioneer in Kanban for software development, recently came to Brazil. A group of InfoQ Brasil editors interviewed David about Lean, Agile and Kanban. See the highlights of the interview.

Anselmo Martelini Rafael Buzon Leonardo Campos Eric Fer
on Mar 26, 2013
Using Kanban to Turn Around Distressed Projects

This case study describes how Kanban and lean development techniques were used to rescue a distressed project that had violated its budget, schedule, and quality constraints. The article presents a detailed account of how the techniques were introduced mid-project to establish control over a chaotic project environment, and is supported with several charts that show the team’s progress.

Steve Andrews
on Aug 22, 2012
Kanban for Skeptics

As a change agent, you constantly need to reassure people that the path we follow is worthwhile traveling. Kanban raises much harder questions on a management and leadership level. This article summarises the most common arguments raised against Kanban and discusses how to tackle them, with links to a free e-book that Nick wrote.

Nick Oostvogels
on Jul 02, 2012
Organizational Culture and Agile: Does it fit?

Recently, Agile Coach Michael Sahota has been exploring the impacts of organizational culture on Agile transformations. We caught up with Michael and asked him to answer a few questions for our readers.

Todd Charron
on Sep 26, 2011

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