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Kanban overview

Kanban overview

- A lot of Agile teams also use many of the concepts from Kanban. Kanban is a scheduling system that was used in Lean manufacturing. Many Agile teams like to display their work on a Kanban board, but Kanban's influence on the Agile mindset goes well beyond just the board. The Kanban system is actually a popular way to apply Lean thinking to software development. Lean thinking is about focusing on what's valuable to the customer and then continuously improving the product over time. You've seen this in the very first principle in the Agile Manifesto. Remember that Agile teams focus on continuous delivery of valuable software, but Lean also emphasizes people over process. It encourages companies to have respect for people and trust them to deliver high quality work. You've also seen this in the first value in the Agile Manifesto, and Principle 5 says that organizations should build projects around motivated individuals and trust them to get the job done. So you could probably summarize…

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