From our current experience we're leaning towards a kind of lean methodology. We are starting to introduce a Product Owner role and we also are forming some QA roles. I'm worried that stratifying the roles like this will result in high visibility but low velocity. I think we'd rather have high velocity at the expense of visibility (we're...
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? ...
Hi There, I work with scrum about 2 months and don’t have all the experience I wish, so I would like to hear some inputs about it. My concern is people never say about drawbacks for the two sides; company and workers. I know the benefits of a cross-functional team but which are the drawbacks? What is hidden beside the amazing Eden Gar...
Our company is espousing lean philosophy into manufacturing and administration, in the vein of The Toyota Way. How can the concepts of waste reduction and continuous improvement be applied to programming and code creation? My focus lately has been just making sure that the code I write is only to support an actual process. I think roo...
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...
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...
What tools for managing Kanban would you recommend? ...
Can Scrum and Project Management live together? Can you take the best of both worlds or will combining these two methods create more chaos? Would Scrum work better with a project manager doing PMO type work and cross function with the product owners and scrum master? I believe that a dedicated PMO would track compliance, artifacts and ...
Hello guys, I am looking into improving my practice of web development and come across the popular term of LEAN Programming. Have you guys got some recommended sources of information that I could dig on , any thing would be appreciated. Thanks ...
I'm interested in learning about Lean methodologies as they apply to software development. Which book would be the best one to start with? I know that the Poppendiecks are popular authors on the subject, but they have two books. Is there a preferred one to begin with? Is there another author I should be considering? ...
I'm confused why my tests won't pass for the Django-lean module. ====================================================================== ERROR: testIntegrationWithRegisteredUser (django_lean.experiments.tests.test_tags.ExperimentTagsTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call l...