EMC Consulting (previously Conchango) are hosting the next London .Net User Group (#ldnug).
Date:Wednesday 9th September 2009
Time: Arrival from 6pm
Venue: EMC Consulting, 36 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU
Speaker: Benjamin Mitchell
Subject: An introduction to Lean and Kanban applied Software Development
This talk will provide a basic overview of Lean and Kanban for software development based on 18 months experience based on a web-based derivatives trading system. The project initially started using "Vanilla Scrum" but slowly evolved, through using a Kanban board and concepts from Lean Product Development into a more pragmatic delivery-focused system. The experience report covers the initial six months development of the system up to the Go Live, followed by the 18 months of continuing development of the system.
Rather than adopt a rigid methodological focus, we have focused on continually delivering valued working software to production (over 45 times in 20 months) and improving the team's ability to "inspect and adapt" using the visual tool of a Kanban Board and a focus on developing the problem-solving ability of all people on the team.
Some of the experiences include:
Observations on the impact of initially adopting Scrum
How starting with a Scrum/Agile Task Board provided benefits
How the Task Board evolved into a Kanban Board by adding Work In Process Limits
How the Kanban Board highlighted areas where the process could be improved
Our attempts at keeping the benefits of Scrum in a more continuous-development environment
You can register here under the Meetings page.