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Improvement Board

Post author By Martien van Steenbergen
Post date October 4, 2014

Henrik Kniberg says that Squads at Spotify are using Big Visible Improvement Boards that focus on one to three Actionable Accelerators like:

“What is blocking us?”

Also, the board shows a Definition of Awesome that includes things like:

Really finishing stuff.
Easily ramping up new team members.
No recurring tasks or bugs.

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Goldilocks

Post author By Martien van Steenbergen
Post date September 24, 2014

Goldilocks-Sizing

Goldilocks is an interesting technique and basically doing the opposite of estimating: You shape the work into the desired sizes.
Vote each item into one of three piles: “Too Big”, “Just Right”, and “Too Small”.
Split any “Too Big” items into “Just Right”-sized ones.
Group any “Too Small” items together into “Just Right”.

The Goldilocks Principle applied to sorting stories reminds of potato grading machines that sort potatoes into different sizes.

Enjoy the flow.

Source: InfoQ » Q&A on Kanban in Action.

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Kanban Coaching Professional Masterclass

Post author By Martien van Steenbergen
Post date October 12, 2013

Martien’s notes from the Kanban Coaching Professional Masterclass with David J. Anderson in October 2013 in the Double Tree Hotel, Amsterdam.
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