Should Cards Move Backward?

The whole concept behind using the word “flow” in “workflow” is that work keeps moving forward. Sounds nice, right? But we all know it's a little ambiguous in practice. What about those times when cards seem to need to move backward on the board? Like when QA finds a bug—should the card move back to Dev?    To answer that question, we first have to remember why the columns on the Kanban board exist in the first place: to be stages of transformation—not roles or specific activities, per se. And with that teaser, you can probably guess what our answer is. If not (or even if you have), listen to this episode to find out!

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There is a lot of material on how a team should operate in an agile manner. There is also a lot of material for leadership as to the benefits of agility, the mindset, etc. But there is not a lot of material directed towards those folks who sit in between. Agile Bites breaks down key Lean and Agile concepts and practices for the people who are often tasked with supporting these things. People who may have to be redefining their roles in a world of incremental delivery. Or maybe they’ve been put in the middle of an “agile transformation” and things are not going as well as promised.