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TFS Kanban talk in Indy.
On June 12th I will be in Indianapolis, IN giving a talk on TFS and Kanban to the TFS SIG there. Check out this link for information on where and when. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Share this post: Read More...
Update on Parking Lot
It's been a while. I wanted to give some more insight on how we are proceeding putting constraints in our parking lot. For some change management processes, your customers might be able to submit as many change tickets as they want. In most scenarios, Read More...
Kanban Backlog (Parking Lot) limits.
I wanted to write an update about our change management system. Now that we have a kanaban system driving our change process we are ready to limit certain parts of our current Kanban. See this post for my earlier thoughts on what we would do. That post Read More...
Web Service Factory for VS 2008
Just released earlier in February, is the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for 2008. This new software factory utilizes the Guidance Automation toolkit in the source code. An intial look seems to me that it's a bit heavy for an agile Read More...
Lean Thinking in Software Engineering
Interesting post over on the Lean Software Engineering blog, " There are no a priori best practices ". In a couple of sentences Corey lays out what I think being Lean is about. What I get out of the 2 sentences are that you must ALWAYS improve. Read More...
Some Surprising Results from Utilizing Kanban
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 Read More...
Thoughts on Constraining or Limiting your backlog (Kanban Stuff!)
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 Read More...
More on moving from to Agile from mainstream Project Management
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 Read More...
Even More Kanban observations (Part IV)
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 Read More...