Tag: kanban

Pushing Beyond Agility: The Kanban Maturity Model
Kanban is not a novel idea. It is a well-practiced and known method for organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, reduce the lead time of processes and improve delivery flow. However, historically ...

Enterprise Kanban Implementation: Where to Start and How to Scale Across an Organization
The Evolution of Kanban At its core, Kanban is a management method designed to improve customer satisfaction by creating fast and reliable workflows capable of delivering products and services of superior quality ...
Syncfusion Releases Essential Studio 2020 Volume 1
Latest version brings new Kanban, Progress Bar, and Card controls to comprehensive Blazor suite Research Triangle Park, N.C., April 09, 2020—Syncfusion, Inc. announced today the release of Essential Studio 2020 Volume 1 ...

The 5 Core Principles of Lean Management
Lean project management is rooted in cost-saving manufacturing methodologies. The ultimate goal of lean methodology is to reduce waste. Companies in all industries have adopted lean principles into their own processes, but ...

Kanban for Operations and Traffic Court
Howard stepped off the elevator and into the lobby. His eyes were puffy and felt like someone had scrubbed them with sand paper. Looking around the office, he made a beeline for ...

5 Team Skills That Make DevOps a Success
When starting their DevOps journey, your team will discover it needs to develop some new skills. Most likely the team is good at typing code and solving issues, but what about the ...

Why Is There No DevOps Manifesto?
Let's start with a brief story: There's a scene in a movie called “A Few Good Men” in which a lawyer is questioning a cadet. The lawyer directs the cadet to turn to the page in ...

4 Ways DevOps Teams Create Value.
Sven Malvik - I've written thousand of lines of code based on lies, lies I hoped were the truth. The truth is that we make false assumptions. Assumptions that kill our business ...

Think you’ve established Kanban? Why you might only be halfway there
As a Lean Coach working in IT I often hear development teams refer proudly to their scrumboards as an example of Kanban. To which I say, 'that's a great start... but it's ...

In Support of DevOps: Kanban vs. Scrum
The Kanban software development methodology is getting a lot of attention as of late, particularly for its ability to enable DevOps. Some organizations are even going so far as to move from ...

The Failings of Multitasking
I often find myself coaching colleagues (and reminding myself) about managing down the number of simultaneous tasks or work assignments. Everyone in IT knows that demand always outstrips the capacity of IT ...