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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 ...

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 ...

Hey folks. A quick technical post for anyone starting to implement Project 2007 Server from 2003.  Your enterprise global cannot be easily moved between environments.  This mainly means any VBA that you may have as carryover from 2003.  I'm assuming that if you utilize VSTO to code your Client tasks with Project objects, you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the following.  The Kanban board (for us this shows WIP, ...

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 displays during the standup, then ...

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 opportunity to ask some tough questions, especially for those ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been experimenting with using the I saw David Anderson mention Kanban System to test how this would work in our organization.  As mentioned earlier the paper A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering explains This method.  See my previous post for an explanation of what we are ...