Do you think that combining the #Kanban principles and practices with the #Scrum Framework will enhance the collaboration across your agile teams?

Far too often, teams implementing Kanban define their Kanban board, set up WIP limits and even plot their CFD and Cycle Time data. However, they are unable to evolve beyond that in terms of truly leveraging the power of Kanban and its data-driven approach, to improve in a significant manner!

The adoption of Agile is spreading across industries, yet, scaling Agile across the organization remains a challenge. SAFe® is a popular templatized framework, combining Lean and Agile to increase productivity, driving competitive cycle times and quality.

How do you find opportunities for your products & services? How do you know if your product or service is loved by consumers? Are your products and services fit-for-purpose? Are they the fittest in a competitive market?

The proliferation of Agility across the organization and across industries has led to somewhat of a methodological jungle: we have agile development methods inspired on iterative development; methods inspired on Lean, Theory of Constraints and (complex) systems thinking; we have methods that address scaling; methods that address start-up and growth; methods that address self-management; and even methods that combine other methods.

From being a widely talked about catch-word to becoming mainstream in the technology world, DevOps is now becoming a must-have within service development. Enterprises today are witnessing a rapid adoption of DevOps to accelerate time to market and meeting ever-changing customer needs. In a globally distributed setup, DevOps enables IT Ops and Development folks to work in cross-functional Agile teams, enabling greater efficiency, faster deliveries/ changes, and recovery from failures.

DevOps has been gaining traction across all software teams across organization. Most teams focus on two specific areas:

Determinism is the dark side. Let The Force guide you. When you feel the pull of the dark side to satisfy expectations, reach for your Sonic Screwdriver – and overcome your challenges by introducing classes of service. Class of Service is to the Kanban coach what the Sonic Screwdriver is to Dr. Who – a tool to take on any challenge! Learn how to apply classes of service to achieve large enterprise scale Kanban implementations.

Often, product development teams struggle to tell the story of how we came to the solution we’ve landed upon and delivered. In cloud infrastructure development, we use discovery technique which often involves testing new ideas to see if they solve the problem and bring the expected value we’ve intended to develop. This process often starts with an idea “a” that morphs and transforms into a product/technology “z”. Because of their position, executive leaders often don’t get this story which can lead to frustration and churn.