Most comparisons of Scrum, Kanban, and Albatross are about philosophy. This one is about cells. Five people. Sixty days. The same work, done three ways. One cell is one person, one day. The cells show […]
Tag: Kanban
Kanban Can Run Bad
Kanban can run bad. Not straying away from being a Kanban, but running straight into a strangling mess. That’s the part people miss. Kanban doesn’t just let bad work through. It produces it. A card […]
Why Agile vs. Waterfall Is a False Choice
Every sprint is a mini-waterfall. Every Kanban board is a view of Waterfall’s middle phases. The debate assumes teams chose either Agile or Waterfall. Most teams are running both — and the methods don’t describe […]
The Albatross Method: The Next Generation of Agile for Long-Run Software
Most software does not get built once. It gets built, shipped, used, and then changed—for years. The frameworks the industry has relied on—Scrum and Kanban—were designed for prototyping, exploration, and iteration that can be reset […]
Estimation and Scheduling in the Albatross Method
As argued in It’s Time to Rethink Agile: The Albatross Method Is the Advanced PM’s Choice, it is time to rethink Agile. This article focuses on one part of the Albatross method — how it […]
Stripping Off the New Clothes of Kanban’s Work-Amount Prediction
A short fable about a method that produces confident numbers and calls it rigor. There’s an old story about an emperor who is sold a suit of clothes so fine that only the wise can […]