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Essays from November 2011

3 essays from November 2011

  1. Kanban vs Scrum, the ultimate fight? Don’t think so, here’s why:…

    Wow, what a week! A BIG post (Link removed at the request of the author) on Kanban by Scrum evangelist [unammed at the requset of author] litterally put the blogosphere (and twittersphere on fire!). It is good to have these family fights in the Agile family once in a while. As a life-philosopher once said: “These …

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  2. XP2012: The Extreme Challenge

    “Agile has crossed the chasm” we hear often. But has it really? In the last few years Agile has gone from being “the cousin in the corner that shouts and screams but no one wants to talk to” to being “the famous cousin who everyones wants to talk to”. It was not an easy transition, …

    2 min readteams

  3. Kanban in a networked process — Visualise the network!

    It seems that the idea of a work-network instead of work-flow is catching on and I’d like to throw a bit more fuel in that fire! Knowledge work is not linear! This we have learned from the experiences with failed Waterfall projects. There are things we do over and over again, and there are things …

    2 min readteams

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