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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,
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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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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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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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