Scaling Kanban
Achieving to setup a well working Kanban Team is one thing. Executing a big project with 20 person-years of effort and 10+ teams working simultaneously is something different. This video shows how the Xing team did that, being able to sleep well the nights before and after the launch and what they learned for the future.
http://www.lean-kanban-conference.de/videos/scaling-kanban/
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Making a Project Management Office (PMO) Work
This short video discusses New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) virtual IT Project Management Office (PMO), the importance of executive sponsorship, the role NYCHA’s PMO played in partnering with the business, risk mitigation best practices and metrics used to evaluate the success of the NYCHA IT PMO.
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Scrum Product Backlog Estimation
This short video explains how to estimates items in a product backlog and how it differs from task estimation. It introduces the notion of story points.
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Dysfunctional Project Reporting
Did you ever experience the phenomenon were the project status is red but getting greener and greener when climbing to the to top of the management ladder? This is named “Watermelon reporting”. This video explains the main reasons for this behavior and gives the right tools to fight messy reporting processes. You will learn practical tools and ideas that can be used to get rid of or at least minimize dysfunctional reporting behavior in your own teams and company.
Video Producer: Agile Central Europe Conference
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Lean, Kanban, Jazz and Origami
What do Lean, Kanban, Jazz and Origami have in common… and where do they differ? In this presentation I will talk about important aspects of Lean and Kanban that I consider to be key to their success and to be what sets them apart form other approaches and methodologies such as Agile and Scrum, yet could be easily ignored.
This is very important because ignoring them as Lean and Kanban gain popularity will result in failed adoption at organizations. I use Jazz and Origami as metaphors because they greatly facilitate the ...
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Offshore Outsourcing with Scrum
There are a lot of different situations in software projects with distributed teams. You can seen both successful and disastrous projects in terms of the ways communication and coordination was designed. People can be pretty much on the same page in terms of project goals while seating in different offices and in different countries. You can also witness people being completely off the track, suffering and losing motivation. Based on experience, this video tries to explains what make some projects good places to be and some not.
Video Producer: Agile ...
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Application of Lean and Kanban at the BBC
This video presents a case study of a small team which decided to use Lean and Kanban to rapidly iterate over the development of the BBC iPlayer.
Watch this video on http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lean-and-Kanban-at-the-BBC
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Better Teams and Better Planning
In this video, Sam Phillips discusses the best ways to organize your teams and plan your projects. Sam is currently an agile evangelist in a start-up and was previously Technical Director for a Ruby/Rails software agency.
Video Producer: Manchester Agile and Ruby on Rails Conference
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Kanban Practice Overview
This very short video gives an overview of the Kanban practices for project management in the context of software development.
Video Producer: http://ninemsn.com.au/
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Achieving Superior Performance in Lean Teams and Delivery
To date, much of the focus on Agile transitions have focused on the team. But the business side of an organization, and the management that serves them, are not truly interested in the mechanisms of Agile teams.
Instead, they want shorter time to market, schedule flexibility, predictability, visibility and metrics that assist them in getting to success and that show when they’ve achieved it. This video explain how Lean methods, coupled with Agile teams, are essential in achieving superior performance.
Watch this video on http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/video/shalloway
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