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Introducing Kanban for Complexity Kanplexity

Introducing Kanban for Complexity™ (Kanplexity™)

  Background Some teams of knowledge workers (En.wikipedia.org, 2019) work primarily on complex problems. Scrum operates in the complex problem domain, so it can be a natural choice. Picture this context Single team Scrum is in use by many teams of different initiatives Having genuinely tried, some teams are unable to use Scrum, as they cannot […]
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Spot the difference original kanban and lean kanban

Spot the difference – The original Kanban, The Lean Kanban method, Professional Scrum with Kanban

Professional scrum with Kanban came out in February 2018, and it can be found at https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams. The Lean Kanban method is described in the Essential Kanban Condensed Guide, that’s at https://leankanban.com/. The original Toyota Kanban has been around for a little longer (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQxvkXSiuA), not to be confused with Kaizen as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wot9DFzFRLU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rRHqb5MV0. This video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5izyN66PTxs in two minutes the original […]
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Kanbaning your scrum part 3 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (3 of 3)

You might remember my posts on “Professional Scrum with Kanban – Don’t just limit WIP – optimise it! (posts 1 of 3 and 2 of 3)”. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team members flipped coins. Heads or Tails, heads was a good day, tails not so good, and […]
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Kanbaning your Scrum part 2 of 3

Kanbaning your Scrum (part 2 of 3)

You might remember https://www.valueglide.com/blog/kanbaning-your-scrum. We optimized the amount of work in progress for simple/obvious work. Now let’s make it a bit more complicated. You might remember I ran a simulation with teams around the world over a number of years. I used Mike Burrows’ Featureban (https://www.agendashift.com/featureban) and Andy Carmichael’s additional design, with some tuning. “Daily”, team […]
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Improvement Board

I was helping a client last year after working with the departmental transformation leader who was sceptical about how the lean and agile approaches can help the department to improve. He set me a challenge to work with one of their teams. Photo by Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash I didn’t know that he picked their most agile team […]
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