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Rethinking Kanban: Exploring some of the nuances in Kanban that most of us get wrong

Abstract You’ve set up your board. You’ve defined your columns. You’ve added WIP limits. You’re doing Kanban. Or are you? Most of us learned Kanban the same way: a training course, a consultant, a framework guide. We absorbed the language, adopted the practices, and got on with it. But what if some of that language

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Treat Work Like a Virus and Teams Like the Immune System

Abstract What if our belief in cross-functional, stable teams is wrong?What if our team structures donโ€™t fit todayโ€™s business context and actually make developersโ€™ lives harder? This talk is a thought experiment based on 20+ years of experience with Agile and Business Agility. Again and again we see: โ€ขโ  โ Specialists isolated within โ€œteamsโ€โ€ขโ  โ Dependencies on

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Seeking Nirvana – Predictability in a Complex World

Abstract As Simon Wardley says: โ€œpredictability is a measure of how accurately we can anticipate somethingโ€ In life and in business, human beings struggle to deal with uncertainty. When we ask people why they engage in agile transformations, change programmes, digital initiatives, scaling projects, and things like that, they will often say that they want

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