Scrumban Quotes

“Lean does not mean letting the inmates run the asylum.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“The lean distribution of knowledge means a more collaborative relationship between management and the workforce. Managers trust that the workers know best about their responsibilities. Workers trust that managers have the right goal and see the true relationships between the production processes.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“The division of knowledge in a lean system is generalist vs. specialist.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“lean production system can seem almost supernatural to an inexperienced observer.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“quality of the relationships between qualified players is usually more important than the individual performances.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Much of the recent thinking in software engineering management stems from the realization that industrial-age command-and-control management structures are ineffective when applied to skilled labor and high-value business problems.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Feature teams address many types of waste, but they may introduce a new type of waste of their own: delay.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Lean thinking is generally far more concerned that the right work is being done”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“A feature team workcell improves availability of functional resources by including that resource directly on the team.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“The productivity of downstream processes regulates the productivity of upstream processes, and this kind of regulation is called a pull system.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Synchronized workflow pros: •    incoming work-in-process is controlled •    standardized work is possible •    pull is possible •    division of labor •    knowledge transfer •    transparency and accountability •    process improvement feedback”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“The principle, Schedule is Orthogonal to Workflow, suggests that there are two fundamental approaches to partitioning work: by schedule or by workflow.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“use case describes the value that the product delivers to the user, roughly by telling a story about how the product will be used.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“It is possible to develop any value-adding increment in a continuous flow from requirement to deployment.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“One of the goals of a Lean software development process should be the end-to-end integration of the value stream, from user research and strategic planning to data center operations and product support. Or as the Poppendiecks say, “from concept to cash.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Scrum can also be useful as a starting point for an experienced Agile team to evolve into a Leaner process.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“Scrum is very effective for certain types of problems. Scrum works best for a backlog of mixed work item types with no consistent workflow. It can also be effective for a backlog of work items of a similar type, but with a poorly defined workflow.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“David Anderson’s Agile Management put newly minted Agile teams on notice that they would eventually be treated like the businesses that they are and held accountable”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development

“like it or not, a large proportion of software development problems have very natural workflows that deserve to be managed well.”
― Corey Ladas, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development