CTO club training course class: dashboard pioneer David J. ANDERSON: the Core of dashboard is to create a capability-to improve agility.

Panel development is the most popular agile and lean Development Method in recent years. David J. Anderson, the father of Kanban, believes that its core is to help enterprises create a capability-to improve agility. The CTO club panel training class will explain the core theory of Panel through theory, Sandbox simulation, and real case sharing.

The Kanban method was born around 2006 and has become the most popular and fastest-growing agile method in recent years. It has become the mainstream method to stimulate agile changes in the Internet age, it is widely used by Internet enterprises and traditional enterprises pursuing Internet revolution. On the one hand, it strongly supports the effective implementation of lean entrepreneurship, continuous delivery, devops and other practices; on the other hand, as a method of progressive change, the Kanban method provides a smoother path for agile transformation, minimize the resistance and repetition in the agile change process, improve the product delivery and response capabilities of enterprises and organizations, effectively cope with the challenges of the Internet era, and achieve the transformation of Internet.

Dashboard? Why?

David J. Anderson is a pioneer in Kanban. He used innovative agile methods to lead the software development team in sprint, Motorola, Microsoft, and other companies to deliver superior productivity and product quality to the team. Author: agile management of software engineering, kanban-successful change of technology enterprises, and agile management course: the road to Kanban.

In the past, people have invested a lot of energy in the agile field and created many frameworks, tools or methods, such as scrum and extreme programming. Why do we still need a new method and its meaning? In early 2014, David J. Anderson answered the following in an interview with Beijing.

DAVID:The fundamental problem is that people have natural resistance to changes, especially when people try to improve the agility of enterprises on a large scale, I believe that there will be many resistance to this goal by promoting agile software development to thousands of employees. I have heard that almost every enterprise trying to implement a large-scale agile process has suffered such resistance and is constantly trying to launch new attempts after the project fails.

A well-known large American bank in the agile community is currently trying to promote the fourth large-scale agile popularization, which is the fourth round of their extensive attempt in the decade. This means that the first three times, after spending millions of dollars in consulting and training, eventually failed. Employees must have been bored with this and have lost patience in trying again and again. Therefore, many people will sell you a framework-the framework itself is not complete, and you can add necessary elements to your analysis based on your own situation; and, it will fit your business environment and will not experience resistance. However, the evidence shows that this is not the case. I saw a case in a large Chinese mobile phone company this week where they pushed thousands of employees to apply a new process framework. It took only a year to complete.

Why should we introduce new methods? The biggest challenge in the agile field is that people resist changes, and the entire agile community does not provide essentially different solutions at this point. They provide various frameworks and methodologies, but there has been no change in how to migrate and implement new approaches. No one has effectively solved the problem of resisting changes. This is what I have been working on and solving in the past decade.

I once experienced the obstacles sprint encountered in the agile process, and also found the same problem in Motorola. When I wrote my first book in 2003, I have considered these issues as an inherent model. However, agile communities do not want people to discover this-they only care about how to sell their own products. They have been pretending that resistance is not a problem at all. This is still the case until today. Even at today's conference, many people are still selling their own frameworks. There are banners and posters for these specific frameworks on their stalls, but no one is willing to talk about them. Many large enterprises have tried such frameworks and eventually failed.

Kanban is a completely different solution to improve agility. Today we promote it as an alternative path to agility. Its core is to help enterprises create a kind of capability-to improve agility, while at the same time implementing it in an evolutionary way, so as to minimize the resistance to changes. This is why we need it. Compared with existing agile methods or frameworks, Kanban is a completely different type of things.

Four benefits of implementing Kanban in Enterprises

1. Shorten delivery cycle time and improve delivery speed

By identifying and eliminating the bottlenecks in the value delivery process, the Kanban method continuously shortens the delivery cycle and increases the delivery rate. A team that successfully implements the dashboard can significantly improve delivery predictability while shortening the delivery cycle.

2. improve business response capability

Dashboards focus on end-to-end value streams, improve it and business collaboration, and implement lean principles such as delayed commitment and quick completion; optimize IT and business commitment methods to maximize business flexibility and response capabilities.

3. Form an organizational and team culture for progressive improvement

Unlike other agile methods (such as scrum) that pre-define the development framework, the Kanban method emphasizes building the ability to continuously change and improve the organization based on the current situation of the Organization, minimize the resistance of organizations to lean and agile changes and safeguard their long-term effectiveness.

4. More smooth and efficient Internet import practices

Dashboard is oriented to the characteristics of valid user value flow, making it the best framework for implementing many Internet practices. It is the default process framework used by Internet development practices such as lean entrepreneurship, continuous delivery, and devops.

The benefits of implementing Kanban are not limited to the above four points. In his interview, David also introduced the tangible benefits he had seen from Kanban. Some of the benefits come from the predictability and delivery time that customers are most concerned about. We often see significant improvements in terms of predictability-it makes sense that we make a commitment and ultimately provide customers with results consistent with the commitment. As for the delivery time, we often see that the delivery time is shortened by 90%, and the delivery speed is often increased by 200% or even 300%, which is not uncommon. In fact, the BBC global website case explicitly showed that they achieved a 700% delivery rate increase, this conclusion was written by Peter Middleton and published in the management science journal IEEE Management Journal.

The conclusion above shows the support of real data of many large enterprises, rather than the conjecture. When people hear that "We have increased productivity by 400% with the help of Kanban", this is because Kanban focuses people's attention on the problem itself and directs them to change the situation, all this will greatly improve the business capability.

In addition, other benefits can be listed. In addition to economic benefits, kanban can also bring a variety of social benefits. The trust in the Organization is improved because the transaction is more balanced (the balance here refers to the fact that the Panel emphasizes balancing the system's production capacity and external requirements, for example, the input to a system should not exceed the inherent capacity at the current time.) customers and employees are more satisfied. All in all, kanban brings both economic and social benefits.

CTO club panel training class!

Currently, the CTO club panel training course is coming soon. This course is a deep Kanban learning course tailored to various owners of the R & D team. It is jointly developed by the CTO club, leankanban University (lku), and agilean, professional certifications provided by lku and delivered by lku China partner agilean. Through theoretical explanation, Sandbox simulation, enterprise case sharing, and Panel modeling, trainees will master the core theories and practices of the panel method, it can also use lean ideas and Kanban practices to pull and improve the agile Implementation of the Organization. We will also compare the dashboard and scrum methods and how they can be effectively combined. (View the course details)

• Beijing site: August 1, September 18-19, 2014
• Shanghai site: August 1, October 20-21, 2014
• Shenzhen Site: October 22, November 20-21, 2014

Course Content

The course lasts for two days, the instructor will systematically introduce how the Kanban method practices have a substantial effect on the team through visual guidance in combination with games, cases, modeling exercises, and other content, help students learn from theory to practice, from simple to deep, the theory and practice of lean ideology principles and Kanban methods.

Instructor Introduction

Luning

Co-founder of agilean, leankanban University's first Chinese Certified lecturer, once served in Baidu and thoughtworks, early practitioners and disseminators of Kanban, focusing on organizational agility and continuous integration.

He Mian

One of the earliest practitioners and disseminators of lean and Kanban methods in China. Author of the infoq series of articles on analytical lean product development, chairman of the agile china2013 conference, and producer of the lean and Kanban modules.

Customer Feedback

Duan Nian, vice president of DoubanAccording to the introduction, Mr. He is the technical director, design team leader, and some product managers of Douban. He has conducted a vivid and effective Kanban training course. It is said that the course is "vivid" because he encouraged the course participants to learn about the various information on the Panel through an existing teaching aid and a virtual case, as well as coping strategies in a variety of complex situations and games over two hours, everyone is very interested. They say "effective ", the reason is that Mr. He not only introduced and presented the Kanban method in the course, but also in the second half of the course, the guidance and problem solving processes for specific problems in Douban product development were arranged. The results produced in the process not only allowed the participants to extend their understanding of the panel method, more importantly, participants can use dashboards to solve their actual problems.

As an active sharer in the field of software development and testing, Duan Nian believes that a good course should not be filled with words from lecturers. Of course, it should not be just like playing tricks. A good course should, on the one hand, give participants a deep understanding of the subject of the course, and on the other hand, give participants the opportunity to associate the subject of the course with actual problems-while instructing people to fish, it also teaches fish. In this regard, he recommends the Kanban course of He mian. I believe it can give your entire organization a deep understanding of Kanban, it also enables course participants to think and solve problems with Kanban thinking.

How to participate? Click right →View the course details and registration methods. If you are interested, scan the QR code below to join the group and contact Lu Ning and he Miao!

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CTO club training course class: dashboard pioneer David J. ANDERSON: the Core of dashboard is to create a capability-to improve agility.