Darren J. McLeod

There is a software development methodology that uses a Kanban board, but it isn’t called Kanban because Kanban isn’t a methodology . It’s just a method, a board with columns and stickies to track work, which this guide says can be used with any methodology and is not a methodology in itself. So I call it the Methodology with No Name(MWNN), like Sirgio Leone's character the Man with No Name.  The MWNN is simple. You add a column on the Kanban board that is a prioritized list of work that is ready to start work on next. But the trick is that the column has a reverse WIP limit, where you make sure the number of stickies in the column never falls below the reverse WIP limit number. This way work is never stalled waiting for a sticky to be completely defined and ready to begin being worked on.  That's it. You just do the work in the usual Kanban way respecting WIP limits of all the columns. With the MWNN there is no need for sprints and sprint planning where you try to guess how m...