Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Mon, 07/29/2013 - 23:51
What is Kanban? And what can we learn from Open Source?
Kanban Success as an Agile and Lean Method
Kanban is becoming an important part of Agile Software Development and IT, VersionOne’s authoritative 2013 State of Agile Survey reveals that Kanban has doubled in adoption among the Agile methodologies, and is frequently used as an alternative to Scrum.
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 23:58
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 00:13
The Essence of Agile
Over 12 years ago the single most important event in recent software development history took place: the birth of the Agile Movement, and the publishing of the Agile Manifesto.
Submitted by Annita Yegorova on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 00:47
Recently I was reading the article "Why Choose Drupal" written by Steve Cowie, Operations Director of Code Enigma and noticed one of the reasons he chose Drupal as a software platform was the "gradual, Japanese Kaizen style" of the platform.
Submitted by Annita Yegorova on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 23:33
Summary:
That list gathers the best books to get knowledge on the most important Agile, Kanban, Lean and Business Productivity related themes.
Books on Agile theme:
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All About Agile: Agile Management Made Easy! by Kelly Waters
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Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
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Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews by Norman L. Kerth
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 01:57
First let us remember that the Agile Movement was born in 2001 in the field of Software Development, at a time when complex and highly ineffective methods and management philosophies were being used to try to deliver software projects. They were collectively called heavy processes, because of the large number of steps they required to get anything done, the Rational Unified Process or RUP is one of them.
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 01:34
Kanban: Fly Different - An Introduction.
Several people have asked me to explain the basics of Kanban’s Agile approach to Software Development. This presentation is a simple, straight forward, fun way to get what Kanban is all about. Feel free to comment on it, or contribute for a future revision.
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 01:27
One key concept to grasp in any form of goal setting, project management, or actual effort in life is that we should strive to never do more than needed, but have a goal of simple elegance. We must realize that More is Less.
Perhaps one of the best ways to illustrate this principle, it to quote Seth Godin with some comments added by yours truly:
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 01:23
Standing on the shoulders of great men.
Like so many Project Managers and busy professionals I too have discovered that is not just enough to manage other people, or the work at hand, we have to manage our efforts in and out of the office, and daily life can be the biggest challenge of all.
The first author to show us ways to improve our productivity was David Allen, his Getting Things Done book was a landmark that I continue to browse occasionally. However I could not get the system to work for me. I wanted something simpler, but still effective.
Submitted by Joseph Hurtado on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 01:06
Less noise, less “information”, leads to less stress and that equals more peace.
Which is actually one of the main principles of Kanban: Limit Work in Progress. A blog post about this topic will come since it’s also an essential part of HKanban.
However in the meantime this post by Matthias is a good introduction to the subject.
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