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Lean and Kanban Conference Post
I am just back from speaking at the Lean and Kanban Conference in Miami, and it was fantastic. The content was just amazing for anyone interested in increasing IT value to your organization, especially from the software development perspective. The event, Read More...
Guest Blog Post on Lean Blog
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 Read More...
New Lean/Kanban Conference pricing.
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 Read More...
Lean Kanban Conference
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 Read More...
Agile 2009 unrest
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 Read More...
What to work on next 2.
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, Read More...
How do you know what feature to deliver next?
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. Read More...
Kanban Retrospectives
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 Read More...
TFS Kanban talk in Indianapolis, postscript
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 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...
More on the Web Service Factory 2008
Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value. I had problems installing the version with source, but it turns out that it was my directory structure. I initially used My Documents to store the project and the documentation does mention 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...
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...
Documenting Work Standards
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 Read More...
Making Kanban meetings more effective.
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 Read More...
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