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		<title>Free Online Kanban Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the context of software development, Kanban is an approach based on Lean that tries to limit waste and work in progress to the actual capacity of the software development team. The aim of Kanban is to create a context that balances capacity and demand through a value stream and promote visual project management. Thus the work is not &#8220;pushed&#8221; to developers by project managers, but &#8220;pulled&#8221; by the development team according to priorities. Kanban is the Japanese word for visual card and visualizing the current situation is very important in Kanban. If collocated teams can use simple dashboards and cards to track the work in progress, this is not the same for large or distributed Kanban teams that need to use software tools. As for Scrum, companies have developed software tools to help Agile teams manage their Kanban flows. This article presents a list of &#8220;pure&#8221; online commercial Kanban tools that can be used for free, even if there are often limitations, mainly the number of users, regarding this free usage. The free options should also be obvious in the tool&#8217;s pricing section and not hidden somewhere. The free usage is not just a free trial during a limited time. We also tried to select tool that integrate some of the actual Kanban concepts like WIP or swimlanes and not tools where you can just &#8220;move cards on a board&#8221; in a Trello-like style, even if you might certainly find value in these tools for simple visual project management, <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/free-online-kanban-tools/" title="Free Online Kanban Tools">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Design to Delivery in 6 Months with Scrum &#038; Lean Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 14:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What does it take to design, build, and launch a dispatch management system in just six months? This presentation offers a deep dive into the technical and collaborative practices like Scrum and Lean Startup that enabled us to deliver an efficient, working solution to a small organization&#8217;s business-critical problem. A small but rapidly growing tourism experience business based in Marrakesh, Morocco, was struggling at coping with demand from customers, and critically needed to upgrade their operations management from a spreadsheet and hours of WhatsApp exchanges to a smoother, slicker solution to the problem: &#8220;Who is available and the best person to take this booking and give our customers an exceptional experience?&#8221;. This is a real-world story of applying Agile practices under tight timelines and navigating remote teamwork to deliver a high-impact, urgently needed system, leveraging in particular Agile practices from Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean Startup and putting design and development in very close collaboration. Attendees will gain practical insights into managing complexity, prioritizing features, and ensuring quality in a globally distributed, fast-paced development environment, as well as a tale of how side-cars are the best way to discover Marrakesh, Morocco. Video producer: https://agileindia.org]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Using Lean Principles to Optimize Casino Platform Efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Efficiency is of utmost importance in the highly competitive world of online casino platforms, where platforms aim to optimize user experience while minimizing downtime and streamlining operations, like http://onlinecasinomk.com/ to stand out among top casino websites in Mk. Lean principles &#8211; initially developed within manufacturing environments &#8211; offer an organized method for reaching this optimization. Lean methods streamline processes, reduce waste, enhance user play experiences, and make platforms such as book of dead slot more attractive and efficient compared with their competition. Here is how adopting Lean principles can ensure casino platforms run more efficiently so players have seamless access while spending more time playing their favorite casino online! What Are Lean Principles? Lean principles are an approach derived from the Toyota Production System, which seeks to reduce waste, optimize processes, and create value for customers. Lean thinking has proved especially useful in optimizing the backend operations of casino platforms by decreasing lag times, speeding transaction processing speeds up, and guaranteeing safe, secure systems. The core principles of Lean management are as follows: Value Identification &#8211; Determining what users (in this case, players) value most. Value Stream Mapping &#8211; Examining each step in a process to identify any areas for Improvement and waste. Flow Optimization &#8211; Ensuring workflows are efficient among processes. Pull Principle &#8211; Building services around user demand. Continuous Improvement &#8211; Concurrently improving and refining processes. Let&#8217;s consider these principles within an online casino setting. Understanding Value within Casino Platforms Recognizing what players value most on casino platforms <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-lean-principles-to-optimize-casino-platform-efficiency/" title="Using Lean Principles to Optimize Casino Platform Efficiency">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book &#8220;Leading Lean Software Development&#8221; achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the right flow when you are a Lean adept ;o) The book starts with a chapter on systems thinking that takes also examples outside the software development world, like Southwest Airlines. The next chapter on technical excellence is dedicated to a panorama of the software development approaches. Chapter three is kind of my favorite part of the book, extracting process management knowledge from the history of the construction of the Empire State Building, a project that took only one year to be completed. Chapter four presents the tools for improvement. Finally, the last part of the book is dedicated to the people and the leadership aspects of Lean. The structure of the book &#8220;Leading Lean Software Development&#8221; makes it very pleasant to read, mixing the presentation of lean concepts with case studies and short personal stories. It is definitively a book that I will recommend to every person involved in software development&#8230; and wish that every software developer, project manager and development or IT manager had read. Even if you think that Lean is not for you, or you are a Toyota owner, this book provides a mind-opening text about <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/leading-lean-software-development/" title="Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Lean Agile Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development &#8211; Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their own experience in Agile software development consulting. The book starts with a presentation of Agile and Lean principles. The second part explains how Lean adoption can improve the usage of Scrum with an interesting table comparing Scrum and Lean accompanied by a list of practices to avoid. It devotes specific chapters to topics like release planning, visual control, quality assurance, product coordination and architecture. A final part is dedicated to more insight in the Lean approach. The book &#8220;Lean-Agile Software Development&#8221; is pleasant to read. Each chapter has an abstract and the beginning and a summary at the end with some questions and further reading recommendations. Besides the sometimes-annoying references to the authors&#8217; consulting firm, this book provides interesting material on specific aspects of Agile software development projects at an enterprise level. Its main difference with other books on the same topic is for me the treatment of the management aspects of software development, as the authors make their point for a stronger management role and intervention in Agile projects. This book will therefore bring more benefits to project and development managers that work for large organizations where the control aspect is important and the <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-agile-software-development-by-alan-shalloway-guy-beaver-and-james-r-trott/" title="Book Review: Lean Agile Software Development">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Definitive Talk on WIP: Stop Starting and Start Finishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The definitive talk on Work in Progress (WIP) talks about getting things done. From team-level to whole-enterprise scale, the amount of work inside the system directly affects the amount of value being delivered. The presentation starts with some history of work study since the 1920’s, and introduces base concepts of lead time, processing time, percentage complete and accurate, and throughput. From there we will explore visualization of work at a variety of levels in an enterprise and look at some of the lean constructs we can apply to limit work in progress; also delving into batch size, queuing theory and flow optimization to add further context. Next, we will take a look at economic prioritization of work, ensuring that the work that we do choose to deliver is the most important and valuable to the enterprise. Lastly we will step into organizational design and look at the perils of utilization-based planning (keeping everyone busy), not limiting WIP overall, and not structuring around Value, closing off with some ideas for re-structuring and re-planning at enterprise-level. Video producer: https://www.agileonthebeach.co.uk/]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Implementing Lean Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Implementing Lean Software Development&#8221; is a book from Mary and Tom Poppendieck that helps to apply the lean manufacturing approach to the software development activities. After a presentation of the way Toyota designed its lean approach for manufacturing and product development, the book describes how these principles could be translated in the software development world. The main part of the book describes how the lean approach can affect elements of the software development process (value, speed, people, &#8230;). Finally, the &#8220;Implementing Lean Software Development&#8221; provides a transition path to evolve towards a leaner approach. The strength of the book lies in the good presentation of the lean philosophy in the software development context, balancing concepts presentation and concrete examples on how to apply them. Lean is a state of mind, so you will not find in this book explicit processes saying “to get A, do B, then C”. Instead, Mary and Tom Poppendieck provide material to think with a different and interesting perspective about every software development activity and how to improve it. Reference: “Implementing Lean Software Development”, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Addison Wesley, 276 pages Quotes Every organization we encounter has more work than it can possibly do. However, we generally find that far more work can be done, faster and with higher quality, by simply removing the enormous waste seen in most value stream maps. The cost of complexity is not linear, it is exponential, and the cost of complexity eventually comes to dominate all other costs in <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/implementing-lean-software-development/" title="Book Review: Implementing Lean Software Development">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thermodynamics of Lean Leadership and Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boiling frogs and Lean transformation often have at least one thing in common: Do it quickly, but not quickly enough, and the subject might jump overboard. Changing behaviours, influencing culture and moving forwards on the path towards Lean or Agile is hard work. More often than not, the advice dispensed is “it depends”. Figuring out what it depends upon is frequently left as an exercise for the individual. While correct, it certainly does depend, many practitioners and change agents lack good mental models to have a good intuition for what it might depend on. And what might likely emerge from different environments. This talk explores one potential model to start making sense of some of the factors levering well known natural phenomena that most of us already have reasonable intuition about. Using thermodynamics, the science of heat transfer, energy and work as the basis to understand change and leadership efforts. Using familiar concepts like heat dissipation and ambient temperature to figure out when and how to focus change efforts. you will learn a new way to (gradually) turn up your Lean/Agile thermostat. Video producer: http://leanagile.scot/]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lean Startup: the Next Step to Foster Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You must have come across the term Lean Startup several times. But, what exactly does it mean, and why is it vital for your business? This article explains what Lean Startup and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are and how they can help you to develop new products faster in an Agile way. Author: Pablo Pecora, Hexacta, https://www.hexacta.com/ There is a common conception that if you have a good idea and you are really committed to work on it, you will succeed. Reality shows us that it is not about your determination level or how awesome your idea may be. Execution is a key factor. Here is when the concept of Lean Startup comes up, a concept that Eric Ries started in 2008 with the book “The Lean Startup”. The Lean Startup concepts are nowadays widely known and applied in most startup and several other companies, but let’s review them. The main idea goes around the Build, Measure, and Learn feedback loop. It states that planning is good when our environment is stable, something that doesn’t happen most of the time, especially in new products or startups. Too much planning makes things risky. The same situation applies when you create products without having the potential client’s feedback. You are risking making a product that no one needs. Facing the Lean Startup concept In order to avoid the uncertainty regarding the product direction, Lean Startup takes the “just do it” approach: work on small tasks or experiments straightforward and fast, and skip all the typical company <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-startup-the-next-step-to-foster-innovation/" title="Lean Startup: the Next Step to Foster Innovation">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lean Mindset, Mary and Tom Poppendieck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mary and Tom Poppendieck summarize the objective of the &#8220;Lean Mindset&#8221; book in the introduction: &#8220;we present a mental model of how to design and deliver amazing products that delight customers&#8221;. Following the same idea that you should &#8220;be Agile&#8221; and not only &#8220;do Agile&#8221;, the book explains how to build the mental model to act in a lean way, discussing the creation of a favorable environment and process to deliver value to the customer. You should not however think that the book presents only conceptual content that has little practical value. It is full of case studies and presentations that illustrate the lean concepts in practice. My favorite presentation is the nine pages&#8217; description of the Spotify product building process written by Henrik Kniberg. The innovation checklist presented in the book is also very interesting. This book is well written an easy to read. The content of Lean Mindset provides a great combination of conceptual and practical material to help you think about your software development process, and not only if you are following an Agile or Scrum approach. This book is valuable for every software developer that want to shift from a &#8220;building the things right&#8221; to a &#8220;building the right things&#8221; way of working. Reference: &#8220;The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions&#8221;, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Addison-Wesley, 180 pages, IBSN 978-0321896902 Quotes Great problem solvers start by developing a deep understanding of the situation through direct experience. They collaborate with people who have different perspectives and knowledge. <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-mindset/" title="Lean Mindset, Mary and Tom Poppendieck">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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