I was part of a very interesting discussion at a Silicon Valley high-tech giant a couple of weeks back that focused on doing Agile with distributed teams. We discussed several aspects of Scrum/ XP practices in distributed teams – and it turned out one of the main (some said “the only!”) challenges was the ability to run a Daily Standup meeting well!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
So how do YOU do Agile in a Distributed environment?
I was part of a very interesting discussion at a Silicon Valley high-tech giant a couple of weeks back that focused on doing Agile with distributed teams. We discussed several aspects of Scrum/ XP practices in distributed teams – and it turned out one of the main (some said “the only!”) challenges was the ability to run a Daily Standup meeting well!
Labels:
agile,
Kanban,
Kanban board,
Lean
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Maturing the Kanban board
Organizations new to Kanban that have no experience with Agile usually find it easier to design their boards than those with Agile background because Kanban recommends the board to reflect the actual process rather than an abstraction.
Compare for example Board 1a, quite common in agile practices, with Board 1b.
Compare for example Board 1a, quite common in agile practices, with Board 1b.
Labels:
Kanban,
Kanban board,
Maturity,
Visualization
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