Kanban repræsenterer en anderledes og mere Lean måde at anskue softwareudvikling på sammenlignet med andre agile metoder. Med fokus på overordnede værdisæt og ikke et specifikt sæt ”Best Practises” ser nogen Kanban som en trussel mod agil udvikling og derfor et skridt i den forkerte retning. Men det er ikke rigtigt, mener software pilot Jesper Boeg.
”Hvorfor bliver vi ved med at tro, at der kun findes ÉT sæt discipliner, roller, praktikker, der passer til ALLE projekter? Det er lige præcist den form for metode-tyranni, vi gerne skulle væk fra. Vi har brug for metoder, der fokuserer på formålet med Agil udvikling og ikke praktikkerne i sig selv. Kun på den måde bliver vi i stand til at tilpasse strukturen til projektet og konteksten og ikke omvendt”, forklarer Jesper Boeg.
I maj afholder Jesper Boeg to Geek Nights, hvor han leverer sin anmelderroste Kanban-præsentation fra QCon London. Jesper er kendt for sine til tider skarpe holdninger til agile udvikling, så det bliver med garanti ikke kedeligt.
“Kanban er ikke en “Silver Bullet”, men det er bestemt et værktøj, der fortjener en plads i den agile værktøjskasse”, pointerer Jesper Boeg.
Jesper is working as Agile Coach and Lean Process Consultant at Trifork A/S. He has a Masters degree from Aalborg University in the area of Information Systems and wrote his thesis on how to successfully manage distributed software teams.
Jesper has been working hands on with Agile and Lean for the past 5 years as Management Consultant, Trainer, Coach, Team Leader, Product Owner and Scrum Master and he is a frequent speaker at international conferences. With a relentless Lean focus Jesper helps teams adopt Agile practices and break down the organizational and personal boundaries standing in the way. He believes that lack of communication is the root to all evil, and trust can only be established through an unrelenting focus on transparency in the entire organization.
Lately Jesper has found the principles of software Kanban increasingly helpful in helping teams appreciate and adopt Lean principles to optimize their current processes; Moving away from the faith based and Cargo Cult implementations of Agile which have been far too predominant as Agile have spread throughout the industry.
Bringing “Agility back in Agile” have therefore been keywords for Jesper’s work lately. It is his experience that specific Agile Best Practices rule sets are enforced in many organizations. Ultimately restricting teams from using the resources at hand effectively and adapt to the context they are faced with. Jesper believes that to be successful in the long run projects cannot just copy the success of others but must understand why things work and how they should be adapted to fit each individual context.
