You have heard it before: “When will it be done?” Earlier this year, I was coaching a team who frequently got this question from their product owner (PO). The PO was unhappy with the lead times, and wanted better predictability. The team didn’t really understand the problem, because most tasks were completed within just a fewContinue reading “When will it be done?”
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Agile and congruent leadership
You’re a leader in your organization, and you want to improve efficiency. You think you want an “agile transformation”, because you heard others have been successful with it. Then remember this:Agile is not just a label you just put on the development department. Agile is a behavior and should affect everything you do. So ifContinue reading “Agile and congruent leadership”
Talking with carpenters
We are currently renovating an entire floor at home, and yesterday I tweeted about a Kanban board I put up for my carpenters. This was only meant as a “joke”, of course, but it generated some feedback and therefore, upon request, I share the board with you: The intention was not to create a complete workContinue reading “Talking with carpenters”
Exploring WIP limits
A few months back I was involved in a highly developer centric project (very unlike my current project). Non-developers were basically only involved and available upon request, so most of the time the team was not very cross-functional. The team was using Scrum at the time, but the flow obviously had a few glitches andContinue reading “Exploring WIP limits”
A simple tip for more efficient standups
A while ago, I was asked for advice on how a team could improve efficiency on standup meetings. The team was growing, and their standups were taking an increasingly amount of time. I didn’t have much time looking into why this happened, so I simply suggested they could try walk the board instead of using the traditional Scrum meeting.Continue reading “A simple tip for more efficient standups”
Using Kanban in retrospectives
I remember reading about the Lean Coffee movement. Inspired by their totally open meeting format, I figured this could be an excellent alternative for our retrospectives. Lean Coffee meetings use Kanban to structure their meetings, they democratize their meetings to learn and discover things about what they don’t know – as well as exploring further what they already know.Continue reading “Using Kanban in retrospectives”
Kanban for portfolio management
Yesterday, I published a blog post about using Kanban for portfolio management on my company’s blog.http://open.bekk.no/kanban-pa-portefoljeniva/ It’s in Norwegian, so here’s a brief summary for my English speaking audience. I work closely with my customer’s project department, and I believe they could benefit from using Kanban for project portfolio management. Here’s an example of aContinue reading “Kanban for portfolio management”
Estimating software projects
My Twitter stream flooded with estimation related topics yesterday. We’re currently starting up a new project, so the timing was perfect and the topic highly relevant. Here are some recommended blog posts from yesterday on the topic: Estimation is at the root of most software project failuresIn this blog post Rob Bowley explains why we’ll never beContinue reading “Estimating software projects”
Kanban and Scrum after 500 tweets
I joined Twitter June 22, 2010, so, needless to say, I was not an early adaptor. Nevertheless, I just passed 500 tweets, and most of my tweets are somehow related to agile development, so did I come across something useful? The answer is yes, and I believe it’s an appropriate time to reflect – focusing on Kanban and Scrum this time. During thisContinue reading “Kanban and Scrum after 500 tweets”
Visualizing project policies in Kanban
When David Anderson visited us last month, he mentioned that we must make sure project policies are explicit by writing them down. Recently, I had a some sort of epiphany that some of these policies could be visualized as well – directly up on the wall. I prefer a whiteboard and post-its for our Kanban wall,Continue reading “Visualizing project policies in Kanban”
Jørn Hunskaar 