David Anderson at #XTC (and the Magical Number Seven)

Great to hear David Anderson speak about Kanban at #xtc. Will be giving the Limited WIP site close attention.

One thing he said that I really did like was that you should try to optimise the process that's already there. You should do this by reducing the work in progress before you start to try to introduce any other changes to the process - like Agile. His idea was that this approach results in much less resistance than wholesale change. As an Agile coach and consultant, I've definitely experienced the resistance, but also there's contradiction implied by trying to change people to an iterative process all-at-once which I think this might address.

One thing that occurred to me - which I'm sure has occurred to many other people was the apparent connection - between limiting work in progress and the "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two."

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