Agile tips for Christmas
At Christmas time, many of us have more on our plates than we can handle. Often literally. So why not go Agile for Xmas.
Kanban your Christmas
Creating a Kanban board is a simple way to keep on top of your Christmas to do list.
If you haven’t used Kanban before, it’s a chance to try it out at home. If you have, you can put what you’ve learned into practice when time is precious.
Kanban is an easy Agile approach to adopt because it’s based on the idea of starting with what you do now and improving as you go. You can sum up Kanban in 4 principles and 6 methods:
4 principles:
- Start with what you do now.
- Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change.
- Respect current process, roles, responsibilities and titles.
- Leadership at all levels.
6 methods:
- Visualise.
- Limit work in progress (WIP).
- Manage flow.
- Make policies explicit.
- Implement feedback loops.
- Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally.
If you want to give it a go, create a Christmas Kanban board, visualise your Christmas to do list, track your progress and look for ways you can improve.
Tip: Keep tasks small and finish each one before you start the next. That limits work in progress and means the work flows faster.
This blog post shows what makes Kanban tick and how to create a Kanban board.
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