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SEPM (ISYS1106/1108) Week 7 Tutorial Solution Sketch Topics: More on Agile Project Management (Lean, Kanban)

TUTORIAL EXERCISES 1. According to Goldratt, two major issues that may cause bottleneck during project flow are Parkinson’s law and Student syndrome. Now answer these questions: a. What are these? (Parkinson’s law and Student syndrome) b. How does Timeboxing- an agile technique address these issues? Time-boxing addresses two common productivity issues: •

Parkinson’s law says, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Fixing the time allowed eliminates wasted slack time that might be built into a scopeboxing approach.

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The student syndrome refers to the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment after a deadline. This leads to wasting any buffers built into individual task duration estimates. So obviously putting a time limit around activities will solve this issue.

2. What is Kanban? How is it used in conjunction with agile? All agile processes are adaptive to customer demand to some extent rather than being totally planned; however, an ideal Kanban process is based totally on a pull process and is totally reactive to customer demand. The word Kanban is derived from the Japanese words Kan, meaning visual, and Ban, meaning card or board. The idea originated from inventory demand cards that are sometimes used in a manufacturing system. In an automotive assembly line, for example: •

The person putting doors on cars only assembles enough doors to meet the demand for cars.

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When his inventory of doors runs low, he sends a demand signal (Kanban card) back to the previous operation that builds the doors. The person building the doors builds only enough doors to meet demand and he, in turn, sends a demand signal for more materials to build the doors his supply or materials runs low.

Kanban is an agile process, different to scrum. So there is no question in using it in conjunction with agile.

3. How does Scrum differ from Kanban? From the prescribed textbook (The project manager’s guide to mastering agile, Wiley Inc.):

4. Recap: In Week 4, you got homework exercise - to fix some PBIs in TL4_LabSheetExercise1_PB.xlsx. Let’s discuss your solutions and issues you might have with this task. No solution for this task. Please discuss your solutions with the tutor. 5. Recap: In Week 6, you got another homework exercise - to fix some mistakes in TL6-SprintBacklog_Solution.xlsx. Let’s discuss your solutions and issues you might have with this task. No solution for this task. Please discuss your solutions with the tutor. 2!...