Kanban Adoption: Which of the following titles best fits your job description?
The success of Kanban is highly influenced by top-down support with existing knowledge of agile/lean methodologies. Masa K. Maeda states, "Kanban is the only software development methodology I know of that promotes the understanding and application of lean and agile values/principles to the practice of the methodology itself. This is a phenomenal characteristic that highly increases the possibility of success. One result from the Cutter survey that supports this is the fact that 55% of respondents hold management or policy-making positions (24% are project managers, 16% are IS/IT managers, 7% are senior managers/policy makers, and 8% are QA managers)"
*Excerpted from "Kanban for Project Management: Should We Buy In?" Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 10, No. 09 (
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