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The Kanban Clinic

The Kanban Clinic is a place to learn how to get started with Kanban and to learn more about it.  The benefits of Kanban over other agile methods such as Scrum include:

  • the ability to do agile when teams are difficult to form due to certain people being in very high demand
  • the ability to control your rate of transition
  • if your teams are overwhelmed with work, the ability to determine what the root cause of the overwork is
  • getting more insights into the principles of software development
  • much fasterlearning than typically achieved with other methods

Getting started

Mapping a value stream to a kanban board. The process of mapping a value stream to a Kanban board and why both are important in improving business-driven software development.

Key Insight: Real Tenets of Lean: Avoid Creating Waste By Eliminating Delays Lean is not really about eliminating waste - it's about not creating it in the first place.

Acceptance Test Driven Development. ATTD is one of the best returns on investments we know.The benefits are:

  • significantly less rework of code
  • higher code quality (many fewer bugs - we've had clients reduce bugs by 92% just doing this)
  • greater productivity as a result of the higher teamwork and greater quality
  • faster regression testing

It accomplishes this by:

  • having better conversations with customers/BAs, developers and testers about what is needed
  • generating better documentation of the requirements (test specifications add essential clarity)
  • providing a platform for automating acceptance tests

More informaiton on ATTD:

Load Balancing Strategies for Kanban Teams

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