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I've been wanting to write this since giving a talk last week at the Indianapolis TFS user group. Paul Hacker started this group and leads the sessions. Props to Paul for having a great group of people. Currently they meet after the Indy .Net Users
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I wanted to share some general accomplishments from our first quarter of using Kanban in terms of metrics. Our cycle times have been slashed in half! Our backlog is the lowest I've ever seen it at. And we've been able to quickly identify blockages
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It's time for a little feedback on where we are for our Kanban system for Change Manaement. For explanations of how and why we are implementing this sytem, please look at the posts, Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog post. , and the
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If you need more info on how to move your Project Management organization from mainstream or waterfall project management methods, here is an article from Doug Dicarlo that might be interesting. Doug makes some points about the book Preston Smith wrote
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Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing . Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan. I would argue that if you are using an agile methodology testing is baked
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Corey Ladas has a post about document work standards . This got me to thinking, how in our kanban we might document our work standards. Our issue is that we are going all electronic. We will have an overhead display to flash the kanban boards. I had never
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I took a vacation down to my favortie city, Orlando! Actually Lake Buena Vista FL, home of Walt Disney World! So of course the week of Thanksgiving, I wasn't Kanbanning, but visiting the parks at WDW. I'm always impressed with how the Disney company
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If you have followed the Agile software development, you most likely have come across Mary and Tom Poppendieck's work like Lean Software Development This might interest you. Schumla is hosting a second Q and A with Mary Poppendieck . This is a great
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As I last posted we are going ahead with our Kanban for Change tickets. The visit with David Anderson (who wrote Agile Management for Software Engineering... ) and Corey Ladas (His Blog is Lean Software Engineering ) really helped focus what we'd
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[tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management ] If you have not been looking at how David Anderson is utilizing a Kanban system at Corbis, read his articles on it here . The paper A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering explains how they
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I wanted to follow up on my last entry. One thing I didn't mention in my last post is how the TDD is accomplished. I believe you can use both Unit Testing and Automated Customer Acceptance tests as in standard projects, in project with MOSS. For Automated
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