Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a clear description of how Kanban works and a practical alternative to sprints.
What it is
Eric Brechner, a Microsoft Xbox development manager, presents his Kanban approach for agile project management at Talks at Google. He covers using sticky notes to organize work, estimate and meet deadlines.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends acjacobson · 2022-10 · on “I don’t believe in sprints”
If you're interested learning more about Kanban, I thing Eric Brechner does a great job of describing it - [this video]
Recommends Balinares · 2026-04 · on “Saying Goodbye to Agile”
I mean, Switzerland and North Korea both call themselves democracies but the specifics matter. The specifics matter! These discussions are always fascinating in a sort of baffling way to me because I've only had great experiences with what I call agile. Like, you bring it into the team and within months everyone is gushing about how much better life is now. Yet threads like this one are full of people reporting awful experiences. Apparently whatever it is they're doing involves a lot of meetings and little actual flexibility? The deeply unexpected thing about that, to me, is, if they hate some parts of the process, why are they keeping them? Every team and every business is different and you
Cites kwanbix · 2021-02 · on “Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage”
I always wonder why most implementation of kamban use only one column per step, instead of two as explained by Eric Brechner. [this video]