FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — San Francisco, CA- Chris Shinkle, Development Manager at SEP presented “Kanban and the Dreyfus Learning model” on the Kanban/ Lean Software Development track at QCon this week.
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Shinkle’s presentation at this conference gives attendees an overview of SEP’s experience adopting Agile practices. Below is the abstract from the program:
In 2004, SEP tried adopting Agile practices. However, Agile failed to have the desired lasting impact across the entire organization. Things changed in 2007, when SEP implemented Kanban for the first time. We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition. We will examine what this pattern has meant for institutionalization of Lean in the organization. We will discuss a counterintuitive technique for higher success and adoption rates of new methodologies. Finally, we will review common pitfalls teams encountered adopting Kanban.
