Fred George | The Agile Revolution Podcast

Marcus Hammarberg, co-author of “Kanban in Action” talks with Craig at YOW! West in Perth in a sometimes noisy coffee shop at the Parmelia Hilton Perth:

Craig’s quote on the book! “No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!”
originally from Sweden, now working for The Salvation Army in Indonesia helping them become more effective
bitten by the Agile bug by demonstrating something embarrassingly small at the end of a sprint and yet he found the stakeholders were overjoyed at just seeing movement
Agile has changed many things that used to manual to be automated, such as testing and deployment, to fit in short cycles
Fred George’s talk “Agile Roots: Use JIT to Go Faster” at YOW! West (slides / video)
Marcus’ talks at YOW! West “Kanban in Action – A Practical Whirlwind Tour of Kanban” (slides / video) and “Impact Mapping: Drawing is Not the Point” (slides)
other books on Kanban include Henrik Kniberg’s “Kanban and Scrum – Making the Most of Both“, and David J. Anderson’s “Kanban” and “Lessons in Agile Management“
Kanban slides on SlideShare led to writing the book with Manning
recommend “The Goal” by Eli Goldratt, the content is boring but the intriguing story keeps you reading
Kanban is trustworthy due to its principles: start where you are, limit the work in process, manage flow from idea to production
sprint is a crazy word, when running a physical marathon you should keep a pace that allows you to continue a conversation
slack will always occur, so plan for it, idle people is OK, we sell ideas not keystrokes per minute
“you can’t be more productive than not delivering a feature” – John Smart
recommended books include “Turn The Ship Around” by David Marquet (also see the TED talk) and “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux
lessons we can learn from IT – simple visualisations, data that makes sense (you can’t improve what you can’t measure), be transparent on what is being worked on and meeting every day
not an Agile Coach but a Social Worker