The Power of One: Starting a Kanban Culture by Yourself

Update: the slides from Mary’s presentation are available! Do you know a better way, but no one will listen? Why wait? You can do it by yourself. I will share my story of how I started a Kanban project by myself. I’ll include some positives and negatives, and the impact on my department and company. The […]

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Busting the Blocked Column Myth

Update: the slides from Sarah’s presentation are available! Software development mythology insists that a Blocked column is needed for the inevitable impediment. Why? Does it help our teams optimize process and reduce waste? I’ll show you how the Blocked column negatively impacts your team morale, increases waste, and skews metrics. Do you believe in the Blocked […]

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With Great Agile Operations Comes Great Productivity!

What if an operations team could mimic some of the agile development principles? What would they become? What new abilities would they have? What new problems could they resolve? We show the transformation made by an Operations team adopting Agile methodologies to tackle today’s unique challenges. Agile has been an industry buzzword for years and numerous […]

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Scaling Campaign Management with Kanban (and Star Wars)

What will 4 boards, 6 teams, 22 people, a well defined Kanban process and a bit of Star Wars culture get you? About 1600 campaigns, 4500 deployments, and over 1.1 billion emails sent with 99% accuracy in 1H 2017 alone. In this session we’ll dissect the process, tools, and lessons we’ve learned! Over the past […]

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