Red Beads and Limited WIP Society

· December 14, 2009

I attended the second Limited WIP Society (Sweden) gathering. It’s a bunch of people that have taken a liking to Kanban practices.

This evening David J Andersson joined us and gave a very interesting presentation on how Kanban teams can reach CMMI level 5, i.e. ranked as very mature. This is, apparently, not repeated by teams doing other agile methods.

OK – during the second half, me and Joakim Sundén presented the Red Bead Experiment. Well, “played it out” I think would be a more appropriate way to describe it. It’s a game that aims to drive home the point Dr. W. Edwards Deming made – “a bad system will beat a good person every time”.

If you haven’t seen it before, there is an excellent recording with Benjamin Mitchell and David Joyce.

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