Agile Journal
What is Best, Scrum or Kanban? - June 2009
The June 2009 edition of Agile Journal brings a new editor and some fresh looks at some of the hottest trends in the world of software development from a wide range of perspectives and approaches.
I'm Alex Peake and I'm your new editor at Agile Journal. I'm bringing a renewed participation in the Agile community and I'm initiating new ways for you to engage with Agile Journal.
The first way you can connect to Agile Journal is through Twitter. You can now follow updates from the Agile Journal via @agilejournal. Twitter is a two-way street and one of the things about communicating using social media is that this is a conversation and we are listening as well as speaking. Connecting with other voices in the Agile twitterverse brings a newfound awareness of what developers are talking about. This is a great way to bring to our attention the stories that you think deserve coverage.
We've been sensing a disturbance in the development force coming from Planet Kanban. Although Kanban has been around a long time as the information cards of the Toyota Production System, it has been gaining steam recently as a popular and polarizing methodology in the world of Lean and Agile software development. Many are debating how to compare or combine Scrum and Kanban.
Here to tell us why Kanban is better is Tomas Björkholm. And here to tell us why Scrum is better is also Tomas Björkholm. He's written an excellent introduction to both in which he alternately wears the I love Scrum shirt and the I love Kanban hat to explain good reasons for using each depending on the situation.
Chris Sterling brings us a set of rules for making sense of backlogs. In one he introduces us to Abuser Stories, which opens up a hilarious and important set of security-focused scenarios from bad guy perspectives like, As a Cracker I want to ciphon credit card information so that I can use it for fraudulant purchases. This is a must-read for product owners who want to tame their backlog.
Speaking Ill Of The Dead by Jonathan Wiggs points out the ominous implications of playing the blame game to pin present problems on past developers. We've probably all heard it or done it at one time or another. Jonathan shows how grumbling about former teammates can get out of hand to poison the development process and he proposes antidotes to keep things constructive.
Akkiraju Bhattiprolu brings us A Critical Look At CMM & Agile Through Gen Y, an insightful explanation for why Agile seems to work so much better at unleashing the potential of today's developers. His experience in the Indian software industry shows how Gen Y people don't fit through manufacturing-inspired CMM shaped holes and how Agile is helping companies adapt.
Chris Matts continues his interesting comic series Feature Injection with part III. He's covered some really important ground in the series in a visual way that makes learning fun. Part III explores how to pick a minimal feature set to deliver the value you've decided upon and it is both fun and worthwhile reading.
We have the latest installment in Joanna Zweig and Cesar Idrovo's series on Group Coherence and the search for hyper productive teams. This month they explain how continuous improvement practice can raise code quality, cut technical debt and smooth releases.
Brad Appleton reviews The Art of Lean by Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett and Mike Sullivan and finds it to be a no-frills introductory book to give the complete beginner a quick start in Lean development techniques and
Agile from a Lean perspective.
This is a big month for the Agile Journal and there's lots more to announce in the days ahead. I can't wait to share what we have in store next month!
Alex Peake
Editor in Chief
Agile Journal
Agile Journal is an online magazine and e-newsletter focused on providing readers with the need-to-know information and resources they need to develop software for an agile business. For over three years Agile Journal has delivered thought leadership and pragmatic advice from a wide range of industry experts, as well as direct feedback from hands-on developers and project managers.
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What is Best, Scrum or Kanban? - June 2009
The June 2009 edition of Agile Journal brings a new editor and some fresh looks at some of the hottest trends in the world of software development from a wide range of perspectives and approaches.I'm Alex Peake and I'm your new editor at Agile Journal. I'm bringing a renewed participation in the Agile community and I'm initiating new ways for you to engage with Agile Journal.
The first way you can connect to Agile Journal is through Twitter. You can now follow updates from the Agile Journal via @agilejournal. Twitter is a two-way street and one of the things about communicating using social media is that this is a conversation and we are listening as well as speaking. Connecting with other voices in the Agile twitterverse brings a newfound awareness of what developers are talking about. This is a great way to bring to our attention the stories that you think deserve coverage.
We've been sensing a disturbance in the development force coming from Planet Kanban. Although Kanban has been around a long time as the information cards of the Toyota Production System, it has been gaining steam recently as a popular and polarizing methodology in the world of Lean and Agile software development. Many are debating how to compare or combine Scrum and Kanban.
Here to tell us why Kanban is better is Tomas Björkholm. And here to tell us why Scrum is better is also Tomas Björkholm. He's written an excellent introduction to both in which he alternately wears the I love Scrum shirt and the I love Kanban hat to explain good reasons for using each depending on the situation.
Chris Sterling brings us a set of rules for making sense of backlogs. In one he introduces us to Abuser Stories, which opens up a hilarious and important set of security-focused scenarios from bad guy perspectives like, As a Cracker I want to ciphon credit card information so that I can use it for fraudulant purchases. This is a must-read for product owners who want to tame their backlog.
Speaking Ill Of The Dead by Jonathan Wiggs points out the ominous implications of playing the blame game to pin present problems on past developers. We've probably all heard it or done it at one time or another. Jonathan shows how grumbling about former teammates can get out of hand to poison the development process and he proposes antidotes to keep things constructive.
Akkiraju Bhattiprolu brings us A Critical Look At CMM & Agile Through Gen Y, an insightful explanation for why Agile seems to work so much better at unleashing the potential of today's developers. His experience in the Indian software industry shows how Gen Y people don't fit through manufacturing-inspired CMM shaped holes and how Agile is helping companies adapt.
Chris Matts continues his interesting comic series Feature Injection with part III. He's covered some really important ground in the series in a visual way that makes learning fun. Part III explores how to pick a minimal feature set to deliver the value you've decided upon and it is both fun and worthwhile reading.
We have the latest installment in Joanna Zweig and Cesar Idrovo's series on Group Coherence and the search for hyper productive teams. This month they explain how continuous improvement practice can raise code quality, cut technical debt and smooth releases.
Brad Appleton reviews The Art of Lean by Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett and Mike Sullivan and finds it to be a no-frills introductory book to give the complete beginner a quick start in Lean development techniques and
Agile from a Lean perspective.
This is a big month for the Agile Journal and there's lots more to announce in the days ahead. I can't wait to share what we have in store next month!
Alex Peake
Editor in Chief
Agile Journal
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