Product Development with Kanban - Understanding Kanban swiftly with getKanban
In our ninth meetup we will soak up and explore the core Kanban principles and practices in an effective and fun way - by playing the getKanban Board Game (http://getkanban.com/BoardGame.html).
Kanban is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative or in addition to agile practices such as Scrum. Kanban is a set of simple principles and work practices that has numerous applications. It can be used as a personal productivity tool (http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/). It can be used on a team level to optimize workflow. And it can be used on a whole company level as a portfolio management tool; to prioritize development proposals.
This meetup session doesn't strictly have much to do with our core "Agile UX" theme. However, I believe Kanban is a very useful tool for UX practitioners working in product teams.
We'll play the getKanban board game (http://flic.kr/p/fJ5dTn) in standard mode (http://bit.ly/v4-fg-b1), which takes about 2.5 hours. We kindly ask participants to arrive on time and plan to attend until ca. 10pm.
Important: Please be on time. If you are late you will need to call us on the phone so we can come and get you at the door. I will send the phone number to the participants by email beforehand.
