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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 ...

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 ...

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 to help.  Also, I hope to test this with the Sticky Buddy project ...

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!

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, at least some of those change tickets should never be done, they are ...

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.  There is now a score field, that has points based off the fibonacci ...

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 was speculation on what we should implement.  We just decided ...