There is a framework that is popular among Agile teams, which helps them manage product development and other “knowledge work” through empirical process control. In this framework, called Scrum, there is a repeating cycle where teams establish a hypothesis by building something small, testing the hypothesis, reflecting on the experience, and making adjustments based on...Read More
There is a method that helps teams visually manage the way work flows though a system, for instance, through their work queue. Kanban takes its name from the Japanese word for placard or billboard, where in a manufacturing context, a board can signify where each item is in the work flow. It is an Lean...Read More
Many organizations benefit by applying certain values, principles, techniques and practices that have been proven to work in a variety of environments, including manufacturing and software development. Many of these ideas originated from the Toyota Production System (TPS). The usage of the term “Lean” in conjunction with software development first occurred in the early 2000s,...Read More
In Scrum, there are several artifacts, and one of them is the set of Product Backlog Items that a team brings to completion by the end of an iteration (Sprint). Anything included in that set of Product Backlog Items, which is called the Increment, must be “Done,” which means that the product is in usable...Read More
In Scrum, each iteration (Sprint), a team chooses a prioritized set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that they are confident they can complete. The set of PBIs that the team decides to work on during that Sprint is collectively referred to as the Sprint Backlog. Teams are wise to be selective about how many PBIs...Read More
In Scrum, there is an artifact that consists of a prioritized list of the new features, changes to existing features, bug fixes, infrastructure changes or other activities that a team may deliver to achieve a specific outcome, such as the creation of a new product or modifications to an existing product. The name of this...Read More
