Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War

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TanksBreaking out from our normal format Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the recent flurry of tweets from the Scrum and Kanban communities.

It all started with Jeff Sutherland and his tweet and blog cross reference: Deep analysis of #kanban by Jim Coplien

The twitter feed that was captured by us (and hence is not a comprehensive feed on the subject and contains some leetspeak cleanup) includes:

David Anderson (@agilemanager):

Interesting FUD Jeff, I thought you were more professional than this?    

Jim’s post on Jeff’s blog contains lies which fly in the face of the well documented evidence with teams around the world   

Jeff and Jim, I challenge you to produce the evidence to backup claims like…   

“Kanban (the methodology) discourages teamwork and increases the risk of not completing agreed work”   

I often wonder how people without integrity go through life and live…

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Episode 17: Bad Smell Bingo

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BingoWith Tony MIA, Craig and Renee talk about bad smells, geek stuff and daily retrospectives:

Bad Smell Bingo for stand-ups:

  • Starts late
  • Not everyone turns up
  • Not enough of a quorum
  • Not standing up
  • Running over 10 minutes (too long)
  • No focus on roadblocks
  • Not touching cards
  • No understanding/association to a story
  • Talks too long (particular individual)
  • Not focussing on the three questions (What I did yesterday, What I plan on doing today and roadblocks)
  • No consistency in the way it is run
  • Too big
  • Directed to PM
  • Directed to IM/Scrum Master
  • Conversations are not off-lined
  • Conversations are off-lined too quickly
  • Risks to delivery not understood
  • No one volunteers to help
  • Too short/not meaniful enough
  • Too boring/monotonous
  • Run like…

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Episode 15: The Perfect World of Agile

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In My Perfect WorldThe usual crew get together again:

Quotes

“Don’t mix dev ops with dev oops!”

“99% of we bapp bugs are caused by 1% of browser types #occupyinternetexplorer”

“Gartner’s analysts are predicting that by 2012 that Agile development methods will be used in…

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Episode 14: Quoting Agile, Lean & Kanban

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Quotable KanbanCraig, Tony and Renee talk about Lean Startups, Tony’s Agile training in India and great places to work, discuss Quotable Kanban and solve a listener problem, all in 50 minutes!

Renee also mentioned Kanban by David J. Anderson, Craig mentioned Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both by Henrik Kniberg and Tony not to be outdone mentioned Lean From The Trenches (Beta) by Henrik Kniberg

Problem Bag:

We have a Product Mgr who’s supportive of Agile in theory, but wont do the work we need him to do. How do we…

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Episode 13: Stories Here, Stories There, Stories Everywhere

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StoryCraig, Tony and Renee spent quite a bit of time today looking at stories and particularly some of the odd terminology that surrounds them.:

Quotes:

“People leave organisations because of their leaders. People stay in organisations because of their teams.” – Renee

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Episode 12: The New Scrum Guide

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Scrum GuideBack to our usual revolutionists Craig, Tony and Renee take a look over Craig’s recent escapades at Agile 2011 and STANZ.

And so much time was spent on referring to this book or that book that we just had to link what books we unwittingly covered in what we like to call Tony’s Oprah Winfrey Bookclub!

Quotes:

“Some tribes are stuck. They embrace the status quo and…

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Episode 10: Day 5 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

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Agile 2011The last day of the Agile 2011 Salt Lake City conference where Craig talks about Kevlin Henney’s presentation of Functionality being an asset and code is a liability and Linda Rising’s presentation of The Agile mindset.

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Episode 9: Day 4 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

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Agile 2011Craig spent the day milling around a number of presentations today and talks about how technologies link together, delighting customers, visualisations, ATTD for start-ups, Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping and flirting with your customer.

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Episode 8: Day 3 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

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Agile 2011Craig covers his daily highlights of the third day at the Salt Lake City Agile 2011 conference:

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Episode 6: Day 2 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

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Agile 2011Craig Smith has been partying hard and gives us Day 2 of his quick daily update direct from the Agile 2011 Conference at Salt Lake City.

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