kanban

Is anyone using Kanban?

Is anyone using Kanban (or scrumban) for the agile management practices? What is your experience with Kanban? How does it work in large complex environments with dependencies on waterfall projects? ...

Scrum, Kanban or Other for 4 person dev team

We have a four person development team that is in need of a formalized project management system. I have a general understanding of Scrum and Kanban but it's hard to truly understand until it's been tried. We don't have the luxury of trying one for a few weeks and then switching to another so I was hoping that someone out there in a si...

Kanban vs. Scrum

Can someone with Kanban experience tell me how Kanban and Scrum differ? What are the pro's and con's of each of the different project management methodologies? Kanban seems to be getting a lot of press these days. I don't want to miss the hottest new way of tracking my teams failures (...and successes). Responses @S. Lott - What par...

How to stop Lean programming becoming Cowboy Coding?

My team has been progressively adopting more and more lightweight methodologies, moving from Scrum to Lean/Kanban where there is less and less formal process. At some point we will be back to Cowboy Coding; indeed I fear we may already be on the border line. Where can the line be drawn between a very lightweight Lean and Agile process a...

How to release often with Lean/Kanban?

I am quite new to Lean/Kanban, but have poured over online resources over the last few weeks and have come up with a question that I haven't found a good answer for. Lean/Kanban seems otherwise such a good fit for our company, who is already using Scrum, but have reached some limitations inside that methodology. I hope someone here can g...

Apply kanban in an agile team

How can I apply kanban to an agile team using XP? Any good advices, articles books? ...

Best Kanban Tools

What tools for managing Kanban would you recommend? ...

kanban scrumish tool(s) to get started

After investigating a little bit scrum and kanban, I finally read this answer and decided to start using kanban, picking something from scrum (note that I'm working mostly by myself, and I do have read this question and its answers). Now, my question is: which tool would be best to get started? whiteboard and postit agilezen.com JI...

Removing shipped items from cumulative flow diagrams

I've just implemented kanban on my team and have started tracking the states of items across time. We've come to the point we we're about to ship our first release under this system, and I've got a question about what to do with finished work items. We have a state "completed" that represents a work item that has been customer accepted ...

Kanban board plug-in for Trac

Is there any plug-in/app for presenting/managing tickets from Trac bug tracking system on Kanban board? For example, I want to be able to change the status of Trac tickets by dragging-dropping them accross the board. I tried some standalone tools like AgileZen but but I couldn't find a way to integrate them with Trac. ...

Kanban/Scrum Boards

I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your board looks like, and how you organize user stories and tasks as they move through a typi...

Kanban as a Software Development Process in Practice

Has anyone used the kanban method for software development management? I am evaluating kanban as a technique and would be curious to hear from anyone who has actually applied it in practice as to how effective it is. I've seen questions like: is-anyone-using-kanban, kanban-vs-scrum, and apply-kanban-in-an-agile-team but they don't addre...

Hostable Kanban solution

I am looking for a Kanban solution that I can host on my own server. Windows or *nux, it doesn't matter. Just would like something that I could host on my server and get a nice user experience. I saw this question that has a lot of good resources, but only Digibord is down-loadable and web based. I haven't tried it out yet, but figur...

Kanbanish visualization and workflow management for multi-project, multi-team department

I'm trying to think of a simple (and agile in nature) way to visualize a large department's work and bottlenecks, with the idea of gradually improving the process once we have the necessary data. The problem is that we have multiple groups of developers working on multiple projects. Some developers are cross-project and some projects ar...

Using a Kanban board per developer

I have been trying to get our software department to adopt some kind development process methodolgy. We only have 9 developers, and about as many projects. Currently, we can only be described as chaotic. Or perhaps 'crisis driven development' as I've seen another SO user call it. Using Kanban seems like a it could be a good fit for ...

Kanban Board Flow and Columns' Relationships

Given the basic flow on a Kanban board: | Backlog | Dev | QA | Deploy | After reading books/articles/presentations it got transformed roughly into Business -> | Backlog | Input | Development | QA | Deployment | Closed | Marketing -> | | Queue |--------------------|--------------------| Queue | ...

How Agile, lean and Kanban relate?

Hey, I'm basically familiar with Agile methodology and Scrum. But what is "Lean Software Development" and "Kanban"? Is it safe to say that Scrum, Lean and Kanban are implementations of Agile methodology? or Lean and Kanban are different methodologies? Do Lean and Kanban provide a skeleton (like Agile) and leave the implementation...

How to specify WIP limits in Kanban?

Hey, Consider a typical Kanban board: Input, Analysis, Dev Ready, Development, Build Ready, Test, Release Ready How to specify WIP limits for each column? any formula? Thanks for help and time. ...

How to release with Kanban?

Hey, In Scrum, it is obvious that we could produce a demo after each sprint. I don't know how to produce demos in Kanban since it doesn't has the sprint concept (I may be wrong). Would you please enlighten me regarding how to make releases in Kanban? Thanks for help and time. ...

Recommend a Kanban tutorial

I lead a small team of six developers, and we are currently implenting a number of agile practices. Most of our work is single-programmer projects, as well as small (2-3 day) maintenance tasks on existing systems. I was interested in the application of Scrum in our situation, but someone recommended Kanban as possibly being a more suita...