Meetings in Kanban
Kanban is a way of driving change, and is not a process, so no meetings are prescribed. We will provide some ideas for meetings you could have anyway. See it as a smorgasbord from where you can pick what you like.
Planning a meeting
Choosing the right product(s) to do next is an important and hard issue. Picking things in the wrong order might increase the risk level or damage the project, the product, or in the worst case scenario the whole company. Even if you have a product owner (see earlier in this chapter) it could be hard for one person to make the decision. From Jeff Patton comes the idea to bring more skills in to make the decision. What he calls "discovery group" includes individuals with knowledge of:
Customer value
User experience
A developer who knows whether it is easy or hard or even impossible to develop a particular feature of a product
When these three skills get together to make the decision about priority, you have a good chance to develop things in the right...
