Is there a Lack of Commitment in Agile, Kanban?

A while back, I had a podcast with Yuval Yeret is a senior Agile Consultant on the AgileSparks team who focuses on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. See what Yuval says about commitment… Related Podcast and Transcription: Kanban and Scrum: A Mixed Approach Joe:  That’s interesting, because commitment does seem that when Read More …

Is Kanban Iterative or Linear?

Mattias Skarin  author of the book, Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both put it this way… Joe: If that prioritization is changing all the time, it seems more like an iteration, and it’s hard to get an iteration within Kanban because Kanban seems to be a linear process. Can you elaborate on Read More …

What are the Boundaries of Kanban?

I discussed the “Boundaries of Kanban” with Markus Andrezak in a past podcast. Most people always want to expand the boundaries of everything they talk about. So, I had to ask him, “What are are the boundaries?” Related Podcast and Transcription: The Boundaries of Kanban An excerpt from the conversation: Markus: What happened was that Read More …

DevOps is About Bridging the Gap

Dominica DeGrandis has spent most of her career synchronizing interactions and dependencies between teams, Dominica is keen on improving the way teams work together to help bring alignment to the entire organization. Dominica holds a BS in Information Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. She is an independent trainer, coach and international speaker. She Read More …

State of Readiness in Kanban

When flow gets interrupted or gets a hiccup and it stops. It just seems like it never gets going again. But part of that, I always think about has got to do with having it ready in the queue, and having it ready to be processed. You talked about managing the queue. Is that similar Read More …

Origins of Lean Kit Kanban and a few Kanban Basics

Bandit Software was founded in May 2009 by Chris Hefley, Stephen Franklin, and Daniel Norton. They all worked together once upon a time at the Nashville-based healthcare giant, HCA, Inc. and remained friend for years, long after leaving to pursue other opportunities. One day they just decided it was time. Time to strike out on Read More …