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A guest blog post I wrote introducing Kanban for Software development has just been posted on Mark Graban's Lean Blog . The article is a quick introduction for people familiar with lean concepts but not software development. I hope this is helpful
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For those interested in the Lean/Kanban conference, there are now some pricing breaks. A great low price before March 16th, and some interesting prices for those in Florida close to the conference. There is also a decent break for those registering before
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For anyone interested in using Lean/Kanban processes for software development , there is a new conference specifically for this in May. The conference is focused on how different companies are using Lean approaches, and has a specific Kanban track, for
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If you haven't noticed, David Anderson has been making a case for Agile 2009 to have a breaking acts type of stage in the 2009 version, as they had in Agile 2008. The case David makes is compelling to me. If Agile is all about "Responding to
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Developer.com published one of my articles that is the first in short series on Kanban. This article uses a similar method to get the point across as The Goal by Dr . Eliyahu M. Goldratt and "Rolling Rocks Downhill" By Clarke Ching. This article
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Right after I wrote about what to work on next, Cory Ladas wrote about the Perpetual Multivote . Cory mentions a voting system that keeps the highest priority at the top of the your list. Items in the list are time sensitvie, so at a predetermined level,
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On the Real Options yahoo list, focusing on the infoQ article written by Chris Matts and Olav we've had a great discussion about this very question. As I understand it, a fundamental concept is to leave decision making until the last responsible moment.
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Belated link, but here's a great podcast from Hanselminutes with an interview with Lean Software folks, Mary and Tom P. I find it hard to believe that Scott has not encountered these concepts before, but maybe he's just playing devils advocate
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Wow, it's been a while since I blogged. Summer is busy, busy, schockingly busy! I wanted to mention the discussion we had recently on the kaban mailing list. We talked about when a group using Kanban as their project management tool would conduct
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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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