Value Glide — Operating Model Architecture for Executive Teams

Working in cells a pattern to accelerate software delivery

Working in cells –  A pattern to limit work in progress in a software development environment Software development requires analysis, design, development and testing to verify that all is as we expect it to be. These activities could be done by one person but not very often, most organisations have different specialists who carry out these […]
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How to measure success? Is it even possible?

How to measure success? Is it even possible?

How to measure success? Is it even possible? Just to set the scene, I haven’t figured this out yet. I can tell you my story, in all its ugliness. It’s based on a real story, but it’s changed significantly from reality to protect the innocent. I hope you still find my account useful. I worked […]
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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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