We used Kanban for infrastructure and ops tasks at my previous job. It works really well with dependencies that don't fit in well with time-boxed iterations.
It also may be suitable for teams with large numbers of interrupts. -Toby > On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Going back to the original topic of this thread - extending Bugzilla > for PM - the scrumbu.gs developer has helpfully given me some good > feedback from their experience. I've invited him and other folks at > Mozilla to join the conversation here if they're interested, but to > recap: > > 1) Instead of Scrum, some teams at Mozilla use Kanban (less focus on > velocity, roles, rituals; more focus on just tracking ongoing work and > limiting work-in-progress). This is more comparable to the lightweight > workflow that e.g. the Mobile App teams and Growth teams at WMF are > currently using, though I'm not sure we've ever formally implemented > some aspects of Kanban on these teams like WIP limits and lead time > estimation - perhaps Steven or Tomasz can speak to that. My take is > that Kanban is good for small teams and Scrum's benefits kick in on > larger, more complex projects. > > Kanban is the kind of workflow that a tool like Trello is good for; > Mozilla likes Kanbanery (proprietary) and wrote a Firefox extension to > tie it into Bugzilla: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kanbugger/ > > 2) There's an intern project called Kanbanzilla that looks more like a > full-on Kanban board integrated with Bugzilla. I've asked if there's a > live setup somewhere, but here's the code if anyone wants to poke at > it: > > https://github.com/mozilla/kanbanzilla > > Cheers, > Erik > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for sharing, Greg! I've also reached out to the scrumbu.gs >> developer. I'd like to coordinate a bit more with Andre/Quim, but it'd >> definitely be great to see if a joint approach with other major >> players to improving our open source agile team tooling. Like I said, >> I think Mingle is a great tool for now (and don't want to discourage >> its use now that we've just started to get good at it), but getting a >> good open alternative to work well for everyone is going to take a >> long time, so we should start thinking about this early. >> >> Erik >> >> -- >> Erik Möller >> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
