To determine the truth of this we only need to look at the feature sets of the popular tools for managing eXtreme Programming and Scrum such as Rally, VersionOne, ScrumWorks, Mingle and very new tools like Borland Team Focus, to discover that not a single one of these tools allows you to set an explicit WIP limit. None of them provide a pull signal to start new work. Very few of them are even capable of reporting the quantity of work-in-progress.
Managing WIP isn't the same as Limiting WIP: Part 1 - 0 views
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s we learned more about the value of managing WIP, we introduced concepts to encourage and enable it, such as the use of Cumulative Flow Diagrams (a.k.a. Burn Up charts)
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Agile teams encountering an impediment would generally mark a story as blocked and go on to another one
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Permanent Link to Feature Flow - Increasing velocity using Kanban - 1 views
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team that had some problems getting their process right
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their velocity was decreasing and spirits were low. Luckily we managed to change our process by changing some basic Scrum practices and replacing some of them with Lean practices, inspired by the new Kanban articles and presentations. Productivity is now higher than ever and we can now focus on what really matters: product quality and customer satisfaction.
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one major issue: getting things done. The major symptom was the frustration of management and the team with the project. The first 3-week time box (sprint) ending with about 30% (!) of all features still in progress, when, of course, they should all have been done and ready for shipment.
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How Is Kanban Different From Other Approaches? « AvailAgility - 1 views
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Scrum places more emphasis on the project management practices. Kanban, places its emphasis on business and value flow practices.
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its all the same elephant, but each approach has a different view of it. At the end of the day, its having the most appropriate elephant for any given context that is most important.
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Kanban can be differentiated by identifying its Primary and Corollary Practices.
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