Kanban Agile vs Scrum vs Kanban
Scrum and Kanban are different methodologies that embrace the Agile manifesto. These three words (Agile, Scrum and Kanban) share common values and principles and therefore can be confused as synonyms, but they are not. If you seek to improve the way you deliver value to customers, first you must
Business RadioX podcast interview with Dimitri Ponomareff
It was a pleasure to participate in this interview on Business RadioX ® for the show Project Management Office Hours with Joe Pusz (aka PMO Joe). We covered a lot of topics during this one-hour interview. You can listen to the full interview here, or listen to specific topics
Be a better lover with a romantic Personal Kanban board
Kanban started in manufacturing as a way to flow the parts on Kanban cards to assemble a product. More recently Kanban is being used to visualize any process by creating Kanban cards to represent a work item that flows on a Kanban board that represents an overall process. What
How our team uses Kanban to develop software
We are excited to share the way we use our Kanban board to develop software. As big fans of the expression "eating your own dog food", we use our own software to develop that same software. This approach is very helpful to ensure the highest quality and keep pushing
Weekly Planning with Kanban – Plan once a week, deliver every day!
Weekly planning became obvious to me when I discovered both Agile methodologies and Stephen Covey. It was back in 2006 when I accepted my first position as an Agile coach for a large software organization which also gave me the opportunity to become a master facilitator of The 7
Scrumban – Blending Agile, Scrum and Kanban into a methodology that works for you
Since the original publication of the Agile manifesto in 2001, the most commonly used Agile methodology has been Scrum. In more recent years, Kanban, which originated from Taiichi Ohno’s publications back in 1988, has also been embraced as an Agile methodology after the fact because it does follow the
Doing Being and Flowing in Kanban (5P and 3M)
Kanban is such a simple and effective approach to improving any process. As more individuals, teams, and organizations adopt Kanban to increase value to customers, reduce cost and increase innovation, it’s critical to grasp the few core elements of Kanban. To get the full benefit of Kanban, practitioners must
Throughput and Cycle Time: Kanban Metrics to Track Performance and Responsiveness
Metrics in Kanban are all about understanding the flow of the cards on Kanban boards. In this article, we will focus only on Throughput and Cycle Time. With these two reports and their average over time, we should be able to provide any team (or process) a simple way
Kanban explained in 100 words to improve both your business and personal life
Kanban originated in Japan as a manufacturing system that applies Lean principles to reduce costs in production lines. In the 1940s, the Toyota Production System implemented Kanban to control inventory levels, reduce time to market, improve quality, etc… The introduction of this methodology within the automobile industry provided a
Increase Your Performance Today with This Simple Kanban Concept
You don’t have to work harder or longer. You simply need to change the way you look at your goals. Research on brain imagery explains that making your brain see something is similar to actually performing the action. This is why visualization is such a key property in Kanban;
