Episode 79: Vomit Value with Jim Benson

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about:

early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on the organisation (Kanban method) – two different viewpoints on the same solution set
XP, Scrum, Kanban method and Personal Kanban exemplify the people who created them
The Oath of Non Allegiance
Scrum vs Kanban
Why Limit WIP and Why Plans Fail books out now and working on an upcoming book about meetings
Individuals and interactions is redundant – relevant in 2001 to shake people out of complacency
Agile is anti-manager
Agile in knowledge work
WIP limits and avoiding “death flow”
Vomit Value – user stories with spurious and arbitrary value in a 2 week sprint
standardisation of humans and collaboration
Toyota change of culture – “what’s good for your life is good for Toyota”
Product Owners (#nopo) – should be the stewards of the value stream