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3 years of Kanban at Sandvik IT: The Story of an Improvement Journey

This is the story of an enterprise-wide Kanban implementation. It explains why Sandvik IT chose the Kanban method; how it was deployed using a kick-start concept; how it was followed-up using a depth-of-kanban assessment; and the effects so far. The article includes links to concrete and step-by-step information on how to run these kick-starts and assessments

Christophe Achouiantz
on Feb 10, 2014
Kanban’s service orientation agenda

This second article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model explores the service orientation agenda. Building on the sustainability agenda, this agenda adds the values of customer focus, flow, and leadership. Individually, each of these brings some challenge; collectively, they can represent to a significant sense of direction, a much more outward-looking approach to change.

Mike Burrows
on Jan 29, 2014
The Sustainability Agenda in Kanban

This first article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model, explores the sustainability agenda: a common approach to Kanban adoption at the level of individuals and teams, often motivated by the need for relief from unsustainable practices and workloads. This sustainability agenda draws on the Kanban values transparency, balance, and collaboration.

Mike Burrows
on Jan 06, 2014
Tracking Schedule Progress in Agile

The challenge of knowing whether we are on track to deliver haunts projectmanagers and developmentmanagers at various levels as their organizations take on agile approaches to product and project development. Driving towards smaller work items and lower work in process brings the benefits of both better project risk management as well as more effective agile execution and learning.

Yuval Yeret
on Jan 01, 2014
Applying Lean Thinking to Software Development

Lean’s major concept is about reducing waste, meaning anything in your production cycle that is not adding value to the customer is considered waste and should therefore be removed from the process. Steven Peeters explains how you can apply Lean principles in an IT environment.

Steven Peeters
on Dec 05, 2013
Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking

For a modern IT company, innovation is equally critical to the company, its clients and its staff. Jeff discussed the important ingredients needed to create a culture of innovation in an organization. Drawing on his experiences at Thoughtworks Chengdu he examines the importance of leadership, lean thinking, problem solving mindset and people factors in fostering innovation.

Jeff Xiong
on Dec 03, 2013
An interview with Vasco Duarte and Jason Little on Lean Change Management by Happy Melly Express

Change agents need a “constant stream of high-quality content to support their work” as Vasco Duarte from Happy Melly states. InfoQ did an interview with him on a new publishing business that aims to connect authors with their audience in a sustainable way, and with Jason Little, an author that will be publishing about Lean Change Management.

Ben Linders
on Nov 07, 2013
InfoQ Interviews David J. Anderson at Lean Kanban 2013 Conference

If they were to carve a new Mt. Everest into the mountains surrounding Silicon Valley, then alongside Dijkstra, Kernighan, The Three Amigos and The Gang of Four they would need to make room for David J. Anderson, father of Kanban in the software development industry. The Lean Kanban Conference took place in downtown Chicago last week, and InfoQ interviewed Anderson.

Victor Grazi
on May 09, 2013
Implementing Kanban in Practice

At the Lean Kanban conference, InfoQ asked Dr. Arne Roock how a team can evaluate whether Kanban is the right tool, and how to kick it off. Dr. Roock offers some prescriptive advice.

Victor Grazi
on May 01, 2013
Culture & Methods

Interview with Michael Azoff from Ovum about How To Create the Agile Enterprise

Large enterprises face three challenges: to innovate and act as a start-up, to use a budgeting process that keeps the organization’s strategy in touch with changing market conditions, and to transform the whole IT department to agile. Principal analyst Michael Azoff explains Ovum’s view on creating an agile enterprise.

Ben Linders
on Apr 10, 2013
Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson, pioneer in Kanban for software development, recently came to Brazil. A group of InfoQ Brasil editors interviewed David about Lean, Agile and Kanban. See the highlights of the interview.

Leonardo Campos Eric Fer Anselmo Martelini Rafael Buzon
on Mar 26, 2013
Queues – the true enemy of flow

No-one wants IT projects to be late. But when they are, it’s rarely because of how long the actual work takes. Tasks and projects spend more time inactive, sitting in a queue, than being worked on. Despite this, most project management offices measure activity, not queues.This article examines why we should track queues and quantify their cost in order to make meaningful gains in speed of delivery

Paul Dolman-Darrall
on Mar 18, 2013

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