Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

Lohnt sich!

❤❤❤❤❤ thanks!!’

How does this apply to physical product development projects for consumer products like Power Tools, Sporting Equipment, Commercial HVAC equipment... i.e. things that require physical prototyping, multiple phases of lab testing, production line start up, marketing campaigns, production labor training...Typically 2 years to get to a first shippable unit out the door to a customer.

nICE CLASS :)

So, with this method, you don't need to allocate bandwidth time for unexpected (bugs, etc.), you just re-prioritize what can be re-prioritized.

great info. thanks.

excellent kanban talk. love the the way you presented it Eric. Very engaging.

Every time I watch Eric’s talk I learn so much!

Eric seems to function as the product owner here. He decides where and if items go in the board. When and how do they specify the work items? He doesnt cover that. How do they size work items and how accurate are they in sizing them? How do they claim to forecast if they dont know what problems may come up? He sounds like he doesnt actually do development, he hand waves so much. I get the feeling he is overstating his success and that there ar many issues he doesnt mention. Executives like to make it look like they are responsible for every success and innocent of every failure. I dont know what they actually contribute.

This is awesome and this is how it should work. Unfortunately, not every company is MS. To make this happen the team must be empowered, staffed with right skillsets and transparency is celebrated. Otherwise it become another top-down heavy 'process'.

This is really insightful. I learned a lot in this lecture. I loved the example he used at the beginning of the session when he converted the questions into Kannan. Thank you very much ❤️

Big problems and open ended at 50m 45s, very interesting

This was a much more simplistic view of Kanban than Andersons take and that's both good and bad to me. I think it could get more people to buy in and it can act as a quick start. My concern is Kanban also has a cultural element to it that requires additional concepts like Kaizen and the value of Slack. I also agree with some comments about the simplistic response to estimating. I agree that as you build trust, you will improve rate of delivery and customers will loosen their grip I have seen it happen. On the flip flop, leadership will always want information to base ROI and investment planning into, and that includes rough estimates and pushing teams to make market deadlines. All in all though, great introduction!

Brilliant... so brilliant.. easy to understand. So hands on! :)

Listen its not worth listening to

Lovely but absolutely chaotic and thus less useful.

Wip limit would be like deadline?

How can I help my country that is Peru to make quicker decitions? And correcting mistakes faster in order to be a first world country? Using Kanban and Scrum. I want the health system to be the best of the world and integrate Traditional Chinese medicine into the SIS (Sistema Integral de SAlud)

Ship online? great :)

The book might be very thin and full of information, but he never mentioned the font size! xD

(Watched six years after posting, been doing Kanban for >2 years, haven't read his book) This is delightful and refreshing. Well worth the hour to watch. We do a lot more than was presented here, and I like that, but I also gained from this video. Thank you!

For in house development work, where you have indefinite availability of resource, it seems easy to do Agile/Kanban. But for consulting companies where availability of consultant is limited and customer is adamant about the expected delivery time and budget being fixed and unchangeable, how do you communicate the cost and schedule in each meeting?

Very straightforward with low overhead, going to implement that in my team

fantastic! looking forward to trying this with my team

Your example of letting the stakeholder put the deadline task to the board on their own, by transperantly understanding which task is really the next priority is brilliant!!!!!!!!

I like the examples in the end with waterfall and scrum teams switching to kanban :)

And they should work for a goal that is reach out, do not recieve any payment unless they do what they promise

If they do not produce, then out :)

we need plenty tracking for goverment

sound great :)

Peru is tortuga style :) plus plenty corruption

ya man, you always need to have your por siacaso :)

Due date for covit end

Deadlines, not only for shipping. Due date for vaccines

Thanks G-D for Kanban

I am already waiting for More than a year for a process to finish

Goverment very slow, I want to wip them...LOL

In Peru things take forever

Great for 'known' task management but not sure i have a clear of how continuous improvement informs the process and how creativity can flourish in designing great. No one framework is a panacea for the challenging work of building great digital solutions.

Kanban Police, arrest this man he talks in math

I use Restyaboard for my projects. It's free and has agile features such as Scrum, Kanban board, Gantt chart, priorities, easy collaboration, offline syncing, etc.

Great presentation, great questions, great answers. Thank you.

Can you make those double columns functional in Jira?

He should have had slides.... LOL

wtf is wrong with the audience?

Great talk. My only observation is, related to the suggested process for estimation. A big assumption is that, the complexity of the work more or less similar . In software development context , IMHO , that’s highly Unlikely. And another point I want to highlight is organization culture. MS is ahead of the game in that area compare to other companies. That makes things significantly different.

Excellent Quality Talk. Getting So much knowledge on kanban boards. This guy is amazingly gifted