1. 07 | Kanban | Tools for Your Toolbox
Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Cheryl Hammond | ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence

2. Tools for Your Toolbox | Overview
There’s a world of good practice implicit in Kanban (and agile) – it can help you solve problems, and make your process really shine

3. Cultural component What you’re doing wrong How to get it right
Writing new legacy code
Sacrificing quality for speed
or vice versa
Trying to minimize disruption
Reward learners
Prudently adopt new practices
Embrace change

4. Modern Practices Fast feedback Economics matter Build quality in
Small batches (of stuff)
Small batches (of time)
Lightweight/JIT requirements
Economics matter
Stack ranking
A/B testing
Feature flags
Build quality in
Unit testing/TDD
Dependency injection
Mocking frameworks
Continuous integration
Service oriented/API design
Pair programming
Code reviews

5. Modern Practices Team construction Continuous delivery Self-organizing
Cross-functional
T-shaped individuals
Look left/look right
Continuous delivery
Dependency management
Automated deployment
Build verification tests
Automated testing with data
Release management

6. Culture flag
Our list of ideas was out-of-date the day we wrote it. Go find (or invent) new ones!