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The Tupalo.com Kanban Story – ON TOUR (3)…LKSE 2012 – Buenas días Madrid!

By | May 15, 2012 | Development, Events, Industry, Kanban, Tupalo | No comments

I guess it’s time again for a new update on our journey through Kanbanland. Last week I had the honor to present “The Tupalo.com Kanban Story” at the Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2012 conference in Madrid.

The LKSE12 conference was held for the first time and was packed with interesting talks around Kanban, Lean, Product Development and Risk Management. Since the emphasis of the conference was laid on experience reports I decided to sum up our challenges and discoveries in a little case study. During my talk I gave an insight into the implementation and evolution of our Kanban system over the last 1 ½ years.

 Excerpt of the feedback/comments via Twitter…

@agilemanager: And now @shuabee telling the wonderful @tupalo #kanban story :-) #lkse12
@pawelbrodzinski: Introduction of kanban helped to realize that the process in fact is different than the team thought. @shuabee #lkse12 Same experience here.
@pawelbrodzinski: And over time the kanban board became way more complex. @shuabee #lkse12 Again, I share that experience.
@agilemanager: .@tupalo story now showing how #LeanStartup validation ideas are now being incorporated w/ #kanban – @shuabee #lkse12
@asplake: Great example from @shuabee of visualising feedback loops that involve external parties #lkse12
@JasperSonnevelt: And they have bug-fixing-fridays! RT @pawelbrodzinski @shuabee is putting bugs on the board. This way you show how doomed you are ;) #lkse12
@JasperSonnevelt: Wip limits are encouraging pair programming at tupalo #lkse12 #kanban @shuabee
@arneroock: Very interesting #kanban case study from Tupalo by @shuabee #lkse12

 

All in all I can say – I heard some great talks, met with great people and had a great time!

For those of you who want to hear more about “The Tupalo.com Kanban Story” I will mention some of our findings and experiences in more detail in the next blog posts.

The Tupalo.com Kanban Story – ON TOUR (2)…Leadership Workshop Barcelona!

By | March 28, 2012 | Development, Kanban, Tupalo | No comments

At Tupalo.com we always like to travel…also on business. This time, the father of Kanban David J. Anderson invited me to present the Tupalo.com Kanban Story at his Leadership/Coaching Workshop in the lovely city of Barcelona.

The 3-day workshop was filled with interesting insights and useful methods every Kanban practitioner should know about. That did not only mean listening to helpful theory and our case studies but also rolling the dice at the GetKanban board game.

The workshop was a great experience and I am glad that we received lots of positive feedback on our Kanban implementation. The next stops on our journey through Kanbanland are already planned and I am pretty excited to follow up on this. :)

The Tupalo.com <3 Kanban Story

By | December 7, 2011 | Community, Development, Kanban, Tupalo, Vienna | No comments

Tupalo.com runs on Kanban and Nina is the one, who makes it happen. You may have read her blog post from about a year ago, where she explains how we implemented Kanban at the beginning at Tupalo.com.

Well, it’s been a great year of Kanban-ing for us and even David J. Anderson “the father of Kanban”, was impressed enough with our work, that he invited Nina to present the Tupalo.com Kanban Story at a leadership seminar he held in Vienna yesterday as well as at the Lean & Agile Coffee in the evening.

The presentation was well received, there were tons of questions from the audience and judging from the enthusiastic reactions on Twitter etc., it seems like there will be even more Kanban boards hanging in other offices around Vienna in the near future!

Well done, Nina! :)

Cabana, Kamikaze, Kobold… No – it’s KANBAN!!!

By | September 8, 2010 | Development, Kanban, Team, Tupalo | 3 Comments

We did it! Last week we implemented KANBAN (= methodology of incremental process improvement/pull system approach) at Tupalo.com HQ here in Vienna. After reviewing various theories of agile management over the past weeks and months, KANBAN became our best friend.

Not seeing it as an actual ‘new’ project management approach but rather as a methodology to improve our internal processes, we added a visual element to our daily work life – the KANBAN Board: transparent, colorful and extremely useful when it comes to just-in-time updates on our status quo.

We visualized our workflow and added WIP limits to each work flow step. Thus we now concentrate on a few work items at a time, achieve a sustainable pace of development and improve quality. We soon got used to the new ‘rules’ of the system and letting it evolve – which (by the way) worked out fine.

As an explanation: The little Avatars are used to indicate who is working on which item within the workflow (large Avatars for main work items/mini-me’s for supporting tasks of other work items).

Last Thursday was the day we started working with the tools that make KANBAN so practical, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to share this with you.

We will keep you posted on our experiences, issues, progress and new findings of our daily ‘walk the board’.