Kanban

Do you use daily standup meetings?

How standard daily standups are organized

Everyone (one-by-one) is asked about: yesterday activities, today activities, blockers.

But this approach has common problem: people are not always listen to others! Because the next person thinks what to say when it’s their turn.

There is a better model - “Walking the Board”

Discuss every ticket on the board one-by-one. The person who worked on the ticket says a few words, can raise any problems that are immediately addressed.

Agile Manifesto changed the software development world in 2001.

However it is just a set of principles. This is why it has led to the evolve of many different Agile frameworks that have crystallized and become widespread.

However different frameworks has different focuses:

• Lean/Kanban - teaches how to eliminate waste in delivery pipeline
• Scrum - promotes leadership inside the teams and defines how to deal with constantly appearing changes
• Extreme Programming (XP) - shows how to build the highest quality software
• SAFe - enables large organizations to work as many agile teams connected together
• …

They also have different team structures/roles, different prescribed activities, different slang, etc…