Chapter 6. Lean/Kanban: Eliminating Waste and Managing Flow
Agile teams know that they can always improve they way they work. Team members with a Lean mindset are great at finding where they spend time on things that aren’t helping them deliver value. Then they get rid of the waste that’s slowing them down. Many teams with a Lean mindset use Kanban to set work in progress limits and create pull systems to make sure that people are not getting sidetracked by work that doesn’t amount to much. Get ready to learn how seeing your software development process as a whole system can help you build better software!
Trouble with Audience Analyzer 2.5
Let’s check back in on Kate, Ben, and Mike. The last release worked out really well because the team had a good idea of what their users needed from the beginning. When they started thinking about what features will go into Audience Analyzer 2.5, some of the problems they set out to correct using Agile practices came back.
Ben: Is it so hard for the team to tell me what features will be in the next major release? We can’t just tell our customers to come to every demo and hope we’ll get around to doing their requests.
Kate: Look, I get ...
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