Ask HN: Is JIRA Kanban Really Kanban?

1 points by tmsh 10y ago ↗ HN

I just read a whole bunch of Kanban and Scrumban books (Anderson, Ladas, etc.). And then I load up JIRA to see how to use it with Kanban and I only have columns corresponding to these generic statuses?

Isn't that completely missing the point of Kanban with visualizing the value stream? What do other teams do? What are alternatives for real Kanban visualization of the value stream?

Am really curious what other teams have used for this (esp. organizations where some teams might be using Scrum and some might be using Kanban).

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[dead] lolidaisuki 10y ago ↗

What baffles is how developers spend so much time learning other people's workflows instead of learning the technologies they are working with. Would your time have been better spent on reading "a whole bunch" of more technical books?

Why do people assume that a worklfow that works for someone "famous" would work for them? What if you spent a while looking for your (you as an individual or your team, doesn't matter) own workflow and went with that instead of trying to be trendy with how you do things. Reading books about it sounds like time wasted.