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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 expalin how a ficitonal software group adopted the kanban to help in ...

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, older lower ranked items can drop off as new items are added.  I ...

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. Also the idea of your saying that options should have value, and ...

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 in the interview?  Scott, were these concepts new to you? Share this post: email it! ...

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 retrospectives.  There was talk about triggering it using ...

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 group.  I thought it was a great interactive talk.  We'll see ...

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 and fix those issues. I don't want you to think there's not room ...

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 More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog.  First good thing ...

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 Flexible Product Development.  I think point 2 on his list is in my mind the most ...

Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing.  Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan.  I would argue that if you are using an agile methodology testing is baked into the project.  XP and Scrum assume that you have to pass acceptance tests ...