Is anyone using Kanban (or scrumban) for the agile management practices?
I know the BBC use it quite extensively. See David Joyce’s blog for more details http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/ He has a quite hefty slide deck in there to sift through. I think the thing to remember about Lean thinking is that you must consider the value stream as a whole. Whilst you can super optimise the development team using techniques such as Kanban, it is more important to incorporate both up stream (Management/Analysis) and downstream (QA/deployment/support) to fully reap the rewards. Therefore, to ask how does this fit into a Waterfall or complex process (beyond your personal effect), is not quite the right question. What is a more important question is to ask how can I begin to effect the entire value stream. I know this sounds like the beginning of religious Lean zealotry, but it is how you will realise the true value of a lean process. For example, consider the following scenario for a typical project: • Analysis time: 18 months • Dev time: 9 months • QA & release time
