Questions tagged [kanban]
Use the Kanban tag for project management questions about how to implement Kanban as a methodology. This tag is not for questions about software recommendations. However, questions about how to integrate a specific software solution or tool as it relates to Kanban is on topic.
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User story conversation vs. scope creep
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What is the difference between:
A) The details evoked & scope definitions & acceptance criteria gained from the ongoing "user story conversation" a team should have with the PO, BAs, ...
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Which columns exist on your task board?
Currently, we’re implementing new processes at our company essentially from scratch, but there are a lot of opinions on which columns should be on the task board. As the one responsible for this ...
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Does anyone use a personal Kanban / Scrum board for project management activities (rather than work items)?
I've seen plenty of people using Kanban or Scrum boards to manage the work of a project.
However, I also use a personal Kanban board to manage my work at home, so I was curious - does any PM use a ...
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How to deal with constantly (~daily) changing requirements?
I see a number of similar links, but none seem to have a solution, mostly "they shouldn't be doing that"'s. I agree, but please, read on:
Scenario: 800K pages of documents, narrative(e.g. emails)/...
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In Kanban, What should I do if the card has a bug that need to be fixed in Test column?
Let's say the workflow is something like this:
Todo -> Development -> Test -> Release
If some feature has done in development and moved to test, when tester found a bug, may be app crashing or ...
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How can I effectively track story points with Trello?
I'm exploring Trello as a Kanban tool, and am hung up on how to track story points with it. This isn't something that Trello natively supports, so I've been re-purposing labels to carry this ...
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Project management methodologies for multiple projects, small teams, diverse skills, partially remote team
I have been reading a lot on Scrum to evaluate its use in our company. I've done a few trials runs with it where the teams were exploring different aspects of it to get some real world feel. I'm not ...
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Does multiple cards in progress by a single person reduce kanban efficiency
My development team is very new to kanban. We have already seen the benefits of the simply visualizing our process.
However, as of late I have noticed developers picking up multiple cards at the ...
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How often and when should you change WIP limits?
I'm testing out Kanban on my research team and I think we're okay for now. We've visualized our workflow and set limits to the tasks. I'm using Kanban in Action for reference. I've set an initial WIP ...
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Does a user story need to be small and why, when using Kanban
User Stories are generally written using INVEST method; the E meaning easier estimation which does not apply to Kanban and S meaning small enough to fit into iteration which also does not apply to ...
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What are the "pillars" of the Kanban process?
The Scrum Guide states:
Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process
control: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
What are the pillars of the Kanban process? Are they the ...
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UI in scrum - what's the silver bullet?
I'm a certified scrum master and, by trade, a UI/UX/Front end dev guy.
More than most I come across the issues faced by having folks with my skill-set within a cross functional team (the 'vertical ...
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Estimate Item Delivery from Throughput plus blockers
We are combining all of our projects into one Kanban board. Since we are only ever one team, it seems to make the most sense to combine everything to one board and prioritize as we can all only work ...
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What is the process for deciding WIP limits for each column in a team's kanban board?
Is there a process to guide the initial WIP number decisions for kanban board columns apart from picking a rough number and seeing how it works out?
Secondly, what metric(s) do you monitor to ...
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Should we include Graphic Team into Scrumban Process?
Our team familiar with traditional SDLC process like waterfall.
So, We wanna step to scrumban. (we think it suitable for us.)
But we have something to concern and not sure what is best practice for us....
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setting WIP limits when devs are multi-functional
Our company has five distinct process competencies: UX, web, desktop,
data-mining and QA with a fixed number of engineers in each role. The
tools that each of these uses are quite different: photoshop,...
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Divide "stories" into tasks or columns?
My team's core job (we're not in the software business) is to install hardware at sites which typically takes around a month start to finish and typically involves around 5 or so distinct stages (site ...
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How do I get started with Kanban? I have a backlog full of user stories
I'm in the early stages of developing a new project and I'm trying to pick up and apply agile techniques. In particular I'm trying to set up a Kanban approach with the development of this project.
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Using Trello to manage workload across multiple projects
I love using Trello and I've found it an invaluable tool in the past on a range of projects, but I keep coming up against the same problem.
I have X projects on at a time with 3 people working on ...
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How to write a summary for a user story?
I'm working hard on user stories and it is paying off, but something itches.
We use Jira, but the problem is that from above the backlog seems clumsy.
We need to write summary for user story so that ...
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Can we use a electronic Kanban board to track actual time spent?
My title sums up my question pretty well. We're investigating whether we can use a Kanban-based system to manage and track some internal projects and one of our requirements is to track time spent on ...
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Kanban - spending time on somebody else's work
Is it OK in Kanban that a developer may be involved in another developer's work (helps, consults) for a significant amount of time (a half day)?
The work item of the first developer is staying in "In ...
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What information should be stored on Kanban Cards?
I am curious to the information and level of detail that people are storing on Kanban cards?
Or beter yet some templates of how they are put together.
For reference here is a description of a Kanban ...
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Daily StandUp in a small co-located team
Let's suppose we have a small development team: a front-end developer, a back-end developer and a tester working in the same room and therefore able to communicate freely throught a day.
Is it ...
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What are the artifacts in Kanban?
Scrum has a number of well-defined artifacts, including:
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Burn-Down Chart
Increment
What artifacts are essential to Kanban?
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What to do when WIP limits must be broken?
So I've been trying to push Kanban, and consequently having WIP (Work In Progress) limits, but there's one question I keep being asked that I don't have a great answer for:
"What happens when we're ...
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Is a mid sprint check-in/catch-up a good idea
Scenario: With scrum teams doing a daily stand-up to inform team of progress (yesterday and today) and any impediments. I wonder sometimes do they actually bring up impediments, concerns or issues. ...
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Applying agile in a mostly operations/support environment
I have read numerous Project Management SE questions on this subject, as well as done a fair share of Googling. I am aware that different incarnations of this question have been addressed before, but ...
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How to manage a schedule across multiple PMs when using a single team for both development & support?
I work for a small company (22 people), whereby the development team works on both new features (40%) and support/maintenance tasks (60%).
We have several account/project managers who prioritise the ...
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How should you do long term releases with Kanban?
With Scrum you can try to plan longer releases using team velocity. If the team velocity is 100 Story Points (SP)/Sprint and the Product Backlog has 1000 SP then you can say you can finish in 10 ...
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What alternatives can I find to Kanban for enterprise applications
We are currently using Kanban to manage customizations and extensions within our application.
Our application is an enterprise application which is highly configurable, however, configure the tool ...
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What are some ways to improve team motivation and sense of achievement using Kanban?
I manage a development team using Scrum extremely successfully. When I started there was no organization to development, so we implemented Kanban as a stepping stone to provide visibility into the ...
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Best (most agile) way to develop multiple products concurrently
I would like to restructure my development teams so that they can work in a more agile way, however each of those teams needs to develop changes for multiple products in their business area.
I've ...
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Methodology to Predict Future Workload
I am working on a prediction of future growth of a workshop (50 – 100 manual workers). The idea is to develop how and in what way we would like to grow this facility. I am looking for a methodology or ...
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How to handle epics in Kanban?
We are about to start working with Kanban instead of Scrum for our product development. We have identified that we will ahve the following flow:
Backlog -> Analyze -> Development - Test
Nothing ...
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How to implement kanban principles into one's personal life?
I'm impressed with kanban from a team perspective, and I'd like to suggestions on how to implement kanban from a personal perspective.
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How to structure our organization and define agile teams in a multiple concurrent projects context?
I know that the agile concept requires the teams to be small, autonomous and self-sufficient, but how to organize teams when forming small and autonomous teams is almost impossible as each member ...
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Does Kanban apply well in practice to software projects with data science background?
A more or less new trend which I observe is integration of data science processes (i.e. workflows required to setup and execute experiments) to design and delivery of user facing apps.
So I assume ...
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Keep User Assignment for Tasks in Done Columns?
I do understand that the concept of the Work In Progress (WIP) of a column counts for both, the "in progress" and the "done"-subcolumn to keep the flow stable and force the team to identify and solve ...
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How should we hand-off and ticket UI designs to the devs to ensure the developed design matches the provided UI mockups, while still being agile?
How should we hand-off and ticket UI designs to the devs to ensure the developed design matches the provided UI mockups, while still being agile?
Note: we're definitely not fully agile, but we're ...
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How can I create an Epic based on requirements following best practices?
I am trying to learn Kanban and Scrum and for that, I have a sample mobile app for the gym in mind with the following ideas:
User should be able to create a workout plan.
User should be able to ...
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Are there alternatives to estimation? (Software development)
I am taking control of a small project for the first time, and want to tell if we can deliver our scope on schedule.
Most teams I have worked in have used story-based estimations. My experience of ...
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How should we implement and keep track of recurring or intangible retrospective action items?
Our Product/Tech team has been transitioning towards Agile project management in the last year or so, and we hold daily standups, weekly planning meetings and biweekly retrospective meetings. We also ...
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What are some differences between Scrumban and Kanban?
It seems to me that scrumban is just a form of Kanban with additional tools like the cadence, planning, retrospective, and daily standup thrown in. Why is scrumban turning into another branded ...
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Dealing with Severe Client Delay
I am working on a website project for a large e-commerce site that is suffering from delay that can be mostly attributed to the client.
The client is requesting significant resource at our end (4 ...
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Should we assign work to individual team members in Kanban?
From my understanding, in non-agile settings, the project manager is responsible for assigning work to individual team members, but in a (self-organized) Kanban team, team members do this when they ...
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How to deal with clients' resistance to smaller deliveries?
When I read this question (Dealing with external departments continuous delivery / smaller feature scope), it made me think of our situation at work. The major difference, though, is that the ...
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Electronic kanban board [closed]
In my project we decided to use Kanban. We started with trello, the application is very nice but it has too few features. It doesn't support:
WIP limits
Class of service
Multiple swim lanes
Which ...
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Kanban: How can I handle column limits when some members work at night?
On my team, we're starting to work with kanban and have column limits applied. One of our members will work frequently work in the evenings or at night and is expressing that the column limits prevent ...
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How to deal with overhead of QA logging bugs that POs aren't interested in fixing?
Many times I've observed bugs being logged against particular stories that takes Product Owners a lot of time to triage that don't end up being important enough to fix. Either it's an acceptable ...
