Tag: kanban
Agile planning: the basics explained
There are different ways to build a planning that actually embraces change. The most basic requirements are that this planning is easy to use, fast to change and makes it easy for you to visualize impact of change. It should give you just the necessary amount of information to make decisions about change well founded and fast. Whether you are using story points for your...
Agile estimating 4/4: Kanban approach to estimating
Now I also promised you a second option of using a range of numbers instead of one number. This is something we use in a typical kanban implementation. I’ll explain how we would go about it. In kanban we would start by collecting historical data. Using this data we can discover several types of work that have significantly different cycle times, time to complete a...
Kanban at General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
We did a couple of introduction workshops back in April where we discussed the foundations of agile development, talking about the values and principles behind it. We introduced the participants to the basics of the scrum framework as well as a short tour around the Kanban method. We also digged a bit deeper into agile project management, regardless of the framework or methodology used. It was...
Get in charge of your life! Optimize for happiness. (our book story)
From time to time you feel bad as a consequence of the way you live our life. Either you know about it or you do not know about it, but in many cases you just accept the situation as it is and keep living your life the way you were. Well... it should not be like that! You should not suffer from things like... ...
Free Retreats, our way to serve you and grow competence.
As passionate people at work, we are constantly on stage and we never take enough time to practise. Our retreats are meant for practise and sharing experiences on a regular base in order to shrink the gap between where the level of our skills are and where we want it to be. There is no pressure to actually achieve visible results or initiate change, the...
Gamestorming in the mountains of Rasnov
A little over a week ago I was in Rasnov, Romania, to facilitate the first gamestorming retreat over there. You know how it was 26 degrees in Belgium? Well, that was cold in comparison to the 36 we had over there. Most of the participants didn't really seem to have any issue with this. I on the other hand was sweating as soon as I...