Lean & Kanban

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Top Twelve Myths of Agile Development
When it comes to agile development, Allan Kelly has noticed a lot of misinformation is being passed off as fact. In this article, Allan takes a closer look at twelve of the most common agile myths he has encountered while training new agile teams.
Visualizing All the Work in Your Project Portfolio
Regarding project portfolios, it can be a big problem for clients to see all the work. Some clients have multiple kinds of projects, so they want to show their work in a variety of ways. Johanna Rothman describes some helpful ways to display the work being done.
Kanban and Lean Startup: Making the Most of Both
Alexei Zheglov reflects on his startup experience and David Anderson’s kanban method in light of Eric Ries’ lean startup movement. Making the most of both approaches requires understanding how they relate to each other.
Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams: A Case Study
In this case study of a distributed agile team, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San Francisco, the testers were in Bangalore, and the project manager was always flying somewhere, because the project manager was shared among several projects. The developers knew about timeboxed iterations, so they used timeboxes. Senior management had made the decision to fire all the local testers and buy cheaper tester time over the developers’ objections and move the testing to Bangalore.

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To Track or Not to Track

What's your take on the defect-tracking debate? Are defect logs helpful repositories of knowledge or cumbersome, inefficient inventories? Lisa Crispin took to the trenches to find out how different industry workers view defect-tracking systems. Find out what they had to say.

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Interviews

Kanban's Visual Efficiency: An Interview with Derk-Jan de Grood
Derk-Jan de Grood explains how those who have yet to embrace Kanban can experience the efficiency and communication-building that the practice brings to development teams of all sizes. After defining what "efficiency" means to him, Derk-Jan goes on to explain why he's the fan of Kanban that he is.
Expanding Agile with Kanban, Lean, and Quality Code: An Interview with Alan Shalloway
Podcast
Alan Shalloway has a wealth of knowledge on all things agile, and in this interview, he helps us better understand a handful of practices that help agile succeed on projects big and small. Alan goes into the importance of design patterns and quality code, and then attempts to "demystify kanban."
Making Governance Work on Agile Teams: An Interview with Scott Ambler
Video
Dr. Dobbs senior contributing editor Scott Ambler sits down with Noel Wurst at Techwell.com to discuss how agile team governance does not have to have a negative stigma. Scott helps people see through naive assumptions, while eliminating out of control governance to get teams back on track.
Enterprise Agility vs. Lean Delivery: An Interview with Mik Kersten
Mik Kersten recently sat down with us to discuss the challenges, and the benefits that adopting lean's principles brings to projects of all sizes. While challenges will vary due to the size of the enterprises lean is being applies to, the goals, and hopefully the outcomes, remain the same.

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