Kanban: A Brief History Kanban, which means “visual signal” or “card” in Japanese, originated as a manufacturing system in Toyota’s factories in Japan during the late 1940s. The goal was to improve efficiency and reduce waste by visualizing the flow of work and inventory. Workers used cards to signal when they needed more materials or…
While Scrum and XP were transforming the software development industry, there was another set of ideas derived from the Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma that started to influence software development methods. These ideas around Lean software development forms the foundation of number of Agile methods. Agile and Lean are two popular methodologies in software development industry to deliver faster…
Company Culture Agile transformation implies a culture change and Culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. We simply cannot change the culture by talking about values, or printing the values together with the company’s vision in big letters at the front door and just by reading that everyday doesn’t change anything until and unless we actually implement changes and make that…
Code review is one of the most important process in software development process. By reviewing the code level of assurance code works in better way is increased. developer gets early feedback as we say in Agile, ‘Fail Fast’. I prepared this content for the Atlassian User Group’s Meetup (9th AUG Meetup) organised by AUG Kathmandu….