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Nothing New Under the Sun: Continually Rediscovering the Good Ways to Build Software
Keith Braithwaite proposes ways to integrate ideas successfully applied in software in the past but later discarded, like analysis, architecture, and modeling, into current technology and practice.
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Product Development in the Land of the Free
Simon Baker and Gus Power point out that many projects fail due to organizational complexity, proposing ways to improve product development and business agility in order to make the customer happy.
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The Power of Visibility: Driving a Lean-Agile Transition
Kelley Horton discusses the reasons why her organization transitioned to Lean-Agile, the approach used and the visual tools helping them minimize WIP, concluding that visibility leads to success.
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Reformulating the Product Delivery Process
Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston and Stephen Chin present how Inovis realized a higher product throughput by using three unconventional Kanban practices and a Lean Release Management tool called APROPOS.
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Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban
Tim Wingfield tells his story moving from Scrum to Kanban, presenting several versions of Kanban boards used, and some practices: retrospectives, pair programming, code review, and stand-up meetings.
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Feeding the Agile Beast
Dean Stevens proposes a way of integrating the business value concept into everyday Agile activity in order to achieve a higher value for an enterprise.
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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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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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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.