Think of kanban as a visualization layer to what y...

2010-02-18T10:52:47.327-08:00

Think of kanban as a visualization layer to what you do. Kanban is not a process. It is a tool. The difference when you are using Kanban is that it promotes Lean techniques which, in conjunction with Agile, can produce some remarkable results.

Of course there's no silver bullet. There neve...

2010-01-26T02:39:19.675-08:00

Of course there's no silver bullet. There never was. Neither Kanban nor Scrum is one. Neither agile nor lean is.

Talking about Kanban, there's one very cool feature of this technique - it is totally light-weight and can be use as an addition in many situations without chaining your current methods much. But of course Kanban, like any other methodology, needs to be implemented when it does make sense.

There are environment where it can work very well as main method although I'd strongly advise to use some engineering best practices. Otherwise you can have hard time keeping high quality. But it isn't different than anything else - you can easily misuse Kanban like you can misuse every other technique out there.

Having said that I always preferred slow but systematic adjustments of current methods (whichever they are) than replacing one worn silver bullet with another shiny one. The latter virtually never works.

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Think of kanban as a visualization layer to what y...

Of course there's no silver bullet. There neve...