Today’s customers expect instant gratification, especially when it comes to technology products. Software development is one of those extremely dynamic industries, in which continuous delivery has become a standard. These are the sort of environments that benefit most from agile methodologies and practices. And today, I would like to talk about Kanban practices for software development teams.
You’ve likely already heard about Kanban practices and their role in software development, but you might be wondering how it fits into the contemporary demands to software releases. Kanban practices were coined to describe the scheduling system used in Toyota factories to improve manufacturing efficiency. They have been applied to agile software development for much the same reasons – namely, to enable the continuous delivery of quality software products.
Balancing Capacity and Demand
Kanban is about pulling work rather than pushing it onto development teams. In fact, one of…