Earlier this week I had the pleasure of doing a conference call with Tim Barcz , Chris Missal and the rest of their development team at J&P Cycles on their adoption of Kanban and move away from Scrum . The conversation revolved primarily around their specific issues and needs, but also included a...
Michael Dubakov has a couple of great posts over at TargetProcess on 5 Wrong Reasons To Apply Kanban and 5 Reasons To Apply Kanban . I started to post this as a comment in response to his 5 Reasons To Apply Kanban, but the size of the comment got a little out of hand, so I thought it would be more appropriate...
In the past, I’ve been a true believer that software development is not really possible to measure from a productivity perspective. I was ignorant, basically. I’m now a bit wiser and I understand that software development is no different than any other product development process. We can and should measure...