In a recent social media discussion, someone stated that the founder of Kanban would not consider it “agile.” I don’t doubt that, and I know some Agilists say Kanban was/is only Lean and not agile. My belief that Kanban is an agile method is based on the way it is taught for use in offices …
Tag: principles
Familiar Lessons from an Earlier Agile Forum
More than a dozen managers get together to discuss what isn’t working in their industry, especially given rapid market and technology changes they all face, and come out with a set of principles around responding quickly to those changes. No, I’m not talking about the Agile Manifesto of 2001. This was the “Agile Manufacturing Enterprise …
Agile Truths from an “Agile” Project before Agile
I trained four administrative teams to meet the principles of the Agile Manifesto seven years before it was written. Their story busts several myths about Agile that continue to hinder its adoption 25 years later. As mentioned in a recent post, Los Alamos National Laboratory faced a major risk in 1994. Their equipment management system …
Cheap Agile:
You Don’t Need Full-Time Scrum Masters
A team with a full-time organizer is not “self-organizing!” My path from technical writer to Agile Coach started at Los Alamos National Laboratory 25 years ago. A new project was framed as a rewrite of a manual. But it became clear this required getting four groups on the same page—pun intended—within and across groups, and …