Agile Made Easier White Paper
Forward-thinking executives are aligning tool and infrastructure decisions with their long-term direction in lending additional credibility and momentum to the agile development movement, ensuring they maximize their return on investment in agile and lean methods.
Kanban is an emerging set of management practices for software development teams that was derived from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints. Kanban has recently become popular with many project teams because of its ease of implementation, use of visual controls, ability to accommodate a wide variety of organizational design patterns, integration of stakeholders and relentless focus on the continuous delivery of value. Many development teams have found success with Kanban when more mainstream agile practices did not yield acceptable outcomes.
Organizations that are interested in adopting or improving agile methods should evaluate the underlying principles behind Kanban and how the principles can work together with more traditional agile methodologies. While there are meaningful differences between agile and Kanban, many teams will find that blending the two approaches can create tremendous value for their organization.
This paper explores the common tools, practices and philosophies of Kanban and examines how an agile team can leverage Kanban to create a more effective product delivery organization.
Organizations that are interested in adopting or improving agile methods should evaluate the underlying principles behind Kanban and how the principles can work together with more traditional agile methodologies. While there are meaningful differences between agile and Kanban, many teams will find that blending the two approaches can create tremendous value for their organization.
This paper explores the common tools, practices and philosophies of Kanban and examines how an agile team can leverage Kanban to create a more effective product delivery organization.
White Paper Highlights:
- How VersionOne supports idea-to-delivery agile application lifecycle management
- Dispelling the myth of one size fits all agile
- Overview of VersionOne's extensible agile metrics and analytics solutions
- VersionOne's open source integration platform and connectors
VersionOne is the only enterprise agile vendor that has been dedicated to agile and lean development since day one. One unique combination of ease of adoption and ability to scale to the needs of larger software organizations has consistently driven many of the best technology companies in the world to partner with VersionOne in their initiatives to improve development process and practices.