(Original song “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO)

Yeah, yeah 

When I iterate 

Managers be sayin, “Damn, that’s great!” 

Velocity increase 

With how often I release, yeah 

This is how I roll 

I got production in control 

When you got a good WIP limit 

No reason not to stay in it

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – Girl look at that whiteboard 

Ahhhh – I burn down

Ahhhh –…

When I last posted on this blog, I was about to depart for the House of Mouse. Yep, DisneyWorld. The Magic Kingdom, to be precise. You might wonder why i’m blathering on about my vacation in my Kanban blog. However, an amusement park is the perfect place to find Kanban happening out in the wild. Talk about your EverydayKanban! For our case study, let’s look at roller coaster ride. But, first, a key to get our parallels drawn……

We have just had a huge re-organization in our company just last week!

People have been anxious and anxiety levels have been high all last month - at all levels.

I was part of the PMO team, that looked into a suite of products spread over 3 geographies (and time zones).

We like(d) to believe that we were following Scrum as the methodology to execute and orchestrate this complex Suite Release. But the fact is that we have changed the dates of the release at least 4 times…

One of the reasons many groups implement Kanban is to figure out how to deliver more consistently. Kanban, as well as many other methods/processes, is often chosen and implemented by the management or leadership layer and the values and goals are communicated down to developers or other individual contributors.

Part of the discussion between management and developers will focus on then end goal of streamlining cycle times as much as possible in order to deliver more consistently. This…