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There is a new version 0.3 release of the Kanban template for TFS on codeplex . This new release took a lot longer than I anticipated. It does include some new process templates. Also, 2 new reports are included (Cycle Time and Flow). These should begin
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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:
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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,
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I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex. The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban. This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template.
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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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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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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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Now that we've been implementing our Kanban for over 1 month, we've got our metrics a little settled. The system has proven it can bring down our backlog. With focused effort you can see improvements. The metrics that I believe are important include
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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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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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