A.R. Van Halleorg

So in the last couple of weeks we’ve been implementing agile practices at work (We’d done a bit, but only recently the boss decided we should all be doing it) and I really enjoy it. I’m one of those people who are actually between two teams. There’s the one team that uses the Scrum and one that uses the Kanban.

I’ll have to go into what the differences are in another post, mainly because it’ll take a long post to explain all that relatively sanely. I’m just too tired to do it right now.

So anyways, I went out and bought a bunch of post-its, got out my white board and set up my Kanban for my big project at home. Since I’m a 1 person team, my board is simple.

- Backlog (as much as my board can hold of these)
- Todo (max 4)
- Integration (max 2)
- Programming (max 3)
- Validation (max 2)
- Done

I have a list of things that I should be getting done in each category in order for it to get moved to the next column and I can’t pull any forward until things get done. One thing our instructor told us to do also was to put ‘blocked’ and ‘ready’ notes on things so we know what’s coming up in the backlog so when a spot frees up in the todo list we can go ahead and put it in and also if we’re blocked on something and it depends on something else.

It’s pretty cool, but like I said it’ll take another post to talk about it, this is just a random personal brain fart to say I’m doing it, cause it’s fun.

Have a great day!