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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 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
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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
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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.
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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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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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I wanted to relate how the first standup we did for our Kanban was, and tell what worked and what didn't. First as I mentioned in my previous post we are displaying our Kanban status board electronically. This we need to work on. Right now it only
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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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[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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Andrew McConnells recent blog entry on " Real SDL & TDD for SharePoint ". His call for community leaders to contribut to this discussion. While I'm not necessarily a MOSS community leader, I could be considered a leader in the ASP. NET
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