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Feature Bits: Enabling Flow Within and Across Teams
Erik Sowa and Rob Loh present the Feature Bits technique used by Lyris, detailing the business context, the solution design, the data model, and coding patterns, plus lessons learned using it.
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The Lean Influencer’s Mantra
Siraj Sirajuddin talks about the Change Agent’s role in introducing Lean and Kanban in large organizations, the Lean philosophy, the forces and dynamicas related to Lean and Kanban adoption.
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Your Mileage May Vary
Experiences and lessons learned facing DevOps problems in the IT trenches (even if they weren’t calling it DevOps!). The good, the bad, the surprises, and ideas for the future.
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Sustainable Design for Agile Teams
Eric Evans advocates on gradual blending of modeling and design into iterative development in an attempt to create a solution that expresses the domain and is flexible enough to support changes.
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Through the Lean Looking Glass
Christophe Louvion tells the story of an online advertising company which exchanged Scrum with Kanban, applying Lean principles at all levels of the organization, change that saved the company.
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Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity
David Anderson discusses the role of Kanban in bringing accelerated high maturity in organizations, presenting evidence of such organizations achieving high maturity in very short time (3-9 months).
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Sky.com: Behind Britain’s Entertainment Infrastructure
Glenn Saqui and Jon Mullen present the process used at Sky.com: recruitment, work area, continuous integration, tools, pairing, weekly and daily process, story cards, and the production environment.
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Making the Work Visible
Alisson Vale presents how Kanban is used to express the understanding of a system by making the work, the workflow, communication, time, information, engineering traceability, and movements visible.
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Teaching Lean and Kanban: What’s Working Well
Russell Healy presents the basic concepts of Lean and Kanban: Waste and the Value Stream, inventory or Work In Process, Cycle Time, and the relationship between them.
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Sibling Rivalry: Can lean approaches help integrate systems and software engineering?
Richard Turner discusses the impact of current system trends and why the disconnect between the two disciplines must be resolved. He suggests lean approaches may provide guidance for reconciliation.
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Rapid and Reliable Releases
Rolf Russell & Andy Duncan discuss rapid and reliable releases from the build/release/devops perspective, considering relationships, metrics, required skills, and the need to cut waste and bottlenecks
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The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study
Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and technical team. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then moving to Kanban.