Questions tagged [kanban]
This tag is for questions related to Kanban for software development and maintenance. Kanban is an alternative method of achieving agility, using limiting work-in-progress instead of time-boxed iterations like "traditional" agile methods. Introduction and definitions of Kanban can be found at http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/
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Can Partial or Hybrid Roles Be Defined in Scrumban? [closed]
I recently read an interesting article on Atlassian that explored the concept of Scrumban, a hybrid approach that integrates elements of both Scrum and Kanban methodologies. The article led me to ...
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Using Kanban or Scrum across 2 companies
I work for a consulting company and we're doing a software contract for a big company. Part of what we are doing for them is helping them figure out what they want, which means the requirements are ...
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How to deal with story-cards on a simple issue-board in Jira
I'm currently organizing a software project via Jira on my own. Right now I'm the only one who is developing on that project. However it is possible that more people will join the team in the near ...
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Teams do relative estimations, business wants absolute estimations. How to make everyone satisfied?
This is the case:
Clients want to know how much time will be needed to finish a particular task (not the group of tasks). They are asking for man/days absolute estimation and only when they get it, ...
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As a developer, how should I work differently in kanban vs scrum?
I am a junior back-end developer at a large company in the US.
At the moment, my 10-member team is changing its approach from Kanban to scrum (2 week sprints). My current way of working is this: I ...
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Should your team put everything they do in JIRA?
I have started working with a team, in a scrum master type role, who has been using JIRA for a kanban type framework. Over the last 6-12 months, they have used JIRA to enter pretty much everything ...
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Kanban board - How to handle defects found in testing phase?
I have a question regarding kanban board and handling defects that are found in testing. The case is this:
User story moves through "Development'' and goes to "Testing'' column on board. Defect is ...
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How to deal with roundtrips in Kanban
We use a Kanban process with the following steps:
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specification
implementation
review
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The specification, implementation and review steps are divided in in progress and done ...
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Is it time for our development organization to let go of Scrum?
I'm part of a development organization which has traditionally been using Scrum principles. We have 3-week sprints, at the end of which we produce a software artefact which our customers install on ...
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How can I distinguish between the two interpretations of a bulge in a cumulative flow diagram?
A bulge in a cumulative flow diagram could indicate that there are blockers in this step of the value stream.
Or it could indicate that this column is producing faster than the next column can pull.
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Is it a fallacy to use Little's Law to prove that you need WIP limits in Kanban?
I have heard the argument that Little's Law proves that you should limit the work in process in your Kanban columns, because the more work that arrives, the longer it will take to move through the ...
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If my value stream has dev followed by test, how do I model a developer who writes tests first?
I am wondering how to construct a Kanban and generate meaningful cumulative flow diagrams in a scenario where steps are not required to be performed in the same order.
As an example, we might have ...
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How should I translate a requirements document into user stories?
I received a big old fashioned requirements document. But my team is working using agile methods (a combination of scrum and kanban), so what we need is user stories.
Is there some guidance for "...
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How should both a Scrum team project and individual Kanban projects be handled within JIRA?
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We're a medium sized company that has a development team of five team members. We recently started learning/employing the Scrum method to our R&D department.
Our core team has one ...
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How to organize work for a team delivering 3 connected but distinct products and stay agile
We are a team responsible for 3 products:
2 products are in active development of new functionality and are moving fast therefore work there could be classified as project
3rd product is alive and ...
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