1. Increasing the efficiency of your
team with kanban
Derk-Jan de Grood
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2. Goal
Show how kanban can benefit:
 Test efficiency
 Better team
 Increasing visibility
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3. Kanban is…
A brief introduction

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5. Kanban is a method for
managing workflows
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6. Characteristics
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7. TOC
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8. Principles
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9. Testing for business benefit
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10. When bother?
four situations
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11. Traditional organization
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12. Goals
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13. Maintenance department
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14. Goals
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15. Test Center of Excellence
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16. Goals
Be more flexible
with resource peaks
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17. SCRUM Project
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18. Why bother…
Trends that make kanban interesting
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19. Goals
Be more flexible
with resource peaks
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20. Trends
Time-to-
Technical
market
Expected Cost
quality reduction
Complexity Trends Fullfilment
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21. Our test team is
involved in the following
activities

22. How do you keep
track of activities,
make sure nothing
is forgotten and
they are handled
efficiently and with
right priority
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23. Involve others…
Glad to be
invited
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24. v
Mobile
Geographic
Back-end Virtualization
Continues Integration
Devices
Test Automation
Infrastructure
Cloud
Interfaces
Virtualization
Big Data
Emulating
Security Embedded
Knowledge Base

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27. Getting started 27

28. How big should your work-item be?
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29. A simple board
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30. WIP limiet
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31. Add swimming lanes
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32. Add columns

33. Preparation. Before you start !
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34. Preparation. Before you start !
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35. The cards
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36. Oh, I should not
be doing this…
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37. Who does …. what?

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40. Wrap-up
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41. Wrap-up
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42. More info… QRC and articles
Download at http://djdegrood.wordpress.com/
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43. Derk-Jan
Valori
Coltbaan 4a
3439 NG NIEUWEGEIN
The Netherlands
• derkjandegrood@valori.nl
• +31(0)651807878
• www.valori.nl
• @DerkJanDeGrood
• http://djdegrood.wordpress.com
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