My presentation at Agile India 2013 on Kanban for Startups

1. #kanban
Visualisation
for agile teams
KANBAN Siddharta Govindaraj
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com
@toolsforagile
for startups
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Siddharta Govindaraj
Director, Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd
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Twitter: @toolsforagile
Beyond Agile: Tales of
Continuous Improvement
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3. #kanban
toolsforagile.com
- Electronic Scrum boards
- Electronic Kanban boards
- Electronic User Story maps
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Recipes are not written down but passed
down to family members and one recipe can
be made 50 different ways because there's
no wrong way of doing it!
David Rocco
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CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT
+
SYSTEMS THINKING
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Requirements are
ASSUMPTIONS
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Verification of assumptions
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Focus on how fast you can validate assumptions,
ie: lead time
To decrease lead time, we need to optimize across
the value stream
To decrease lead time, queue time is more
important than execution time
To decrease lead time, reduce work in progress
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PRIORITISATION
Don't do it. Use selection instead
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DEVELOPMENT
Plan for change. LOTS of it
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TESTING
Validation vs Stability vs Lead Time
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VARIABLE PROCESS
Through Class of Service
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Siddharta Govindaraj
Director, Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd
Email: siddharta@toolsforagile.com
Twitter: @toolsforagile
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