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I really liked Scrum versus Kanban session I made along with Piotr during Engineering Academy “Diamond Polishing” (both sites in Polish only). The theme of my part of presentation and the following discussion was the sentence I took from Henrik Kniberg must-read article on Kanban: “I don’t know, experiment.” – What kind of columns I […]
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Recently I had a lot of occasions to discuss Kanban with other people, the coolest one being last meeting of Engineering Academy “Diamond Polishing” (for you who speaks Polish there’s video recording available online). One of things which I stressed during these discussions is that Kanban is not enough to manage a software project. I […]
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Our initial Kanban board was pretty simple. It looked like that. From the beginning we were set up to experiment and adjust it on the way. Here’s what we have changed. 1. Documentation First thing was documentation. I know that’s not even trendy anymore to write documentations but yes, we do it. It helps us […]
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Last two posts of the series (on Kanban Board and on setting up whole thing) were Kanban implementation-in-a-pill kind of story. As you may guess that’s not all since Kanban doesn’t prescribe many things which you can use and, most of the time, you do. To show the big picture there are two lists: practices […]
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One of stages of one-afternoon Kanban setup we did was creating our own Kanban Board. We just discussed what we wanted on the board adding columns which appeared reasonable for everyone. This is what we came up with. To describe stages: • Backlog is a big bag where I willingly throw in anything anyone wants […]
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So you want a story about the most painless implementation of new software development/project management methodology in industry history? Here it goes. There was nice afternoon, sun was shining and air-conditioning was silently humming. One of our engineers asked me what about this new methodology we were talking about a couple of weeks earlier. So […]
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Meetings are boring. Most meetings are irrelevant. There are too many meetings we have to attend. A confession: during past half of year I organized exactly two meetings with engineers in my team. Both were mostly about organizational issues regarding whole company, not just my team. How did I do that? Let’s start with why […]
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In the last chapter: A small team was built and they tried to set up a methodology for building their projects. After establishing a set of techniques and trying them against first couple of projects they faced a list of issues. They realized they needed something more. How would they deal with the problem? What […]
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A lot of interesting discussions today. During one of them we went through co-location and its influence of team productivity. I’m lucky enough to work with all my team in one room. I’m aware of all disadvantages of grouping people doing different things in one place but I’m still saying I’m lucky. • I know […]
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So we were doing great, everyone was happy and we were delivering on time on budget and on scope. Except it wasn’t exactly how things really looked like. First two projects were late. Not much but still. It was expected since these were our first estimates in the team and at that time we decided […]
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