The topic is “Kanban for Just In Time Training” given by John Stevenson.

It is not uncommon in IT projects that you are required to learn something on the fly or you see an opportunity to introduce a new technique or tool that would bring great benefits to a project.

How do you manage the learning curve required for something new without major impact to the project?

This talk will discuss how Kanban can be used to manage a training schedule, for either personal development or for team skills transfer.

Arranging the board so that the studying is planned and managed effectively

Discussing how to use of work in progress limits to manage the training schedule to ensure that learning is done effectively and avoiding study overload.

Using card design to ensure that the goals and measurement of training success are defined, so that the effectiveness of the training can be assessed.

Organising cards to enable a flexible training schedule and study topics can be picked up “Just In Time”

Adding the pomedaro technique to maximise your study time.

The topic is “Migrating from Scrum to Scrumban – an Experience Report from a Kanban Virgin” given by Chris Pitts.

Last year one of my client teams was looking for a better way to work following some problems while running fairly standard Scrum. One change appeared to be to combine Scrum with kanban – “Scrumban”. So we jointly decided to give it a go.

This experience report explains how the team did it. It should help anyone interested in evolving their Scrum and other timeboxed iterative process to an interesting alternative. The talk will cover:

• Why evolve? A summary of how the team was working and the issues they were seeing.
• Practical observations of how using kanban changes timeboxed iterative develop process
• Some of the questions that you will need to address when you change
• Some concrete solutions to those questions Where next? Possible directions for further evolution.