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A Kanban Is Just A Signal To Do Work

A kanban is a signal to do something . I don’t think kanban implies a pull-based system, honestly. Joe Ocampo showed it best in his Scrumban presentation at Austin Code Camp: That’s not a signal to pull anything… it’s a signal to RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 5:10 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Lean Systems, Kanban, Workflow

Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka - Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban

Let's assume that we are doing the appropriate amount of testing during our development process. If we include TDD, test automation, test engineers and customer acceptance testing, we should find the majority of the bugs in our system before they...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2008 8:46 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, Philosophy of Software, Management, Lean Systems, Continuous Integration, Kanban

Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues - Pipelines for WIP and Done

In part 2 of my Kanban in Software Development series, I talked about completing a kanban board with queues, order points and limits. We saw how to take a complete development pipeline and work with a team, its processes and its bottlenecks. In the end...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 12:07 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Analysis and Design, Agile, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban

Kanban in Software Development. Part 2: Completing the Kanban Board with Queues, Order Points and Limits

In Part 1 of Kanban in Software Development , I introduced the concepts of kanban boards and pipelines. I also showed a very simple example of creating a pipeline for our development process. However, there were some obvious limitations in what I showed...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 2:06 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Philosophy of Software, Retrospectives, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban

Kanban in Software Development. Part 1: Introducing Kanban Boards and Pipelines

In the world of Scrum , XP and other forms of Agile software development , many teams use visual control systems to outline the various steps that software goes through during development. These boards are known by various names - Scrum boards, card-boards...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 10:45 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Philosophy of Software, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban

Kanban - Pulling Value From The Supplier

Before I start talking about how our team is going about our implementations of Lean and Kanban, I wanted to start by outlining my current understanding of what kanban is. I'm hoping that this will set the ground work for the rest of my Adventures...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 4:03 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Agile, Management, Lean Systems, Kanban

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