I'm glad this group is starting up. What I heard at Agile2007 really got me excited. I've read Agile Management about two times back, read the corresponding...
Yeah me too. I've started leaping and have had positive feedback from one team that I'd like to take to this level. Speaking with some others in the coaching...
I'm looking forward to the discussion too. The initial reactions from people have been similar to those Scrum or XP sometimes get. Its too big a shift to take...
... You'll find books and websites on Toyota Production System (TPS) which talk about Kanban and other lean manufacturing concepts, though you may have to...
Right now there is precious little to read on this topic. Check out http://www.agilemanagement.net/kanban for a couple of Powerpoint presentations I've put...
I've pitched it three times in the past two days. - A (senior) developer thought it was awesome. Wanted to start yesterday. - A product manager liked it, but...
David, I was wondering... is the Kanban system still being used primarily within a software maintenance project effort at Corbis? In addition, does anyone have...
Chris, I'm currently coaching a client who produces medium-sized ERP and Fiscal systems here in Brazil. They have a big problem with their deployment projects,...
Corbis is applying Kanban technique to both maintenance and new development. Naturally, there are some differences between them. The new development process...
Kanban processes have now been adopted by our Web Production, Process Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Vocabularly Management (non-IT group) teams. We...
... Dave, let me be the first to start the "David's new book" rumor. Seriously, I would love to see you and Corey publish something as a follow-on to your...
Good luck with this! It sounds exciting. Keep pushing the boundaries over in Brazil and let us know how it goes. ... Fiscal ... deployment ... Management ... ...
David, I spent some time last night looking over your presentation, "A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering on Software Systems". Thanks for putting that...
Hi Chris, All good questions... There is a clear difference between maintenance work processing change requests and major project work that has some defined ...
There are a lot of new members of the group over the weekend. Welcome! As a reminder you can read the archive of the messages on the group from the web site, ...
There are lots of new members over the weekend. We're close to 120 now. I'm wondering if anyone who has recently joined the group has anay experience using...
David, I'm currently coaching a client who has about 35 developers in many teams. We're using a shared Excel spreadsheet for our electronic kanban taskboard. ...
I've been thinking about how to apply the kanban system to my teams work, and generally bouncing round the idea with people. Most people seem to like the...
I posted some thoughts on my blog today about where to use a Kanban process in regards to Software Engineering. I am wondering how much waste would be...
... Average lead time and cycle time per work item are more direct measures of productivity. The throughput equation: throughput = WIP / cycle_time ...can...
Adail, Great news! I'm excited to hear about it. Can you tell us something about how your are setting the kanban limits and controlling (the amount of)...
Sanjiv has posted some of his observations from his visit to my office one month ago. http://lithespeed.blogspot.com/2007/08/agile-model-evolution-part-1-go- ...
Karl, While Corey has given you the equation that gives an instant measure, in reality we are recording "throughput per month" and both mean and distribution...
Hello, David. On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, at 1:03:28 AM, you ... I'm not sure what you mean by kanban /limits/, but I see XP and Scrum teams all over who...
... Sticky notes on a whiteboard is not the salient feature. What makes it a real pull system is that there is a defined workflow and there are limits on work...
Ron, I don't think kanban has anything to do with charts. These would be called "visual controls" in Lean literature. I saw Kenji's paper but I don't generally...
From Chris Matts who asked me to post this on his behalf... http://finance.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbandev/photos/browse/c316 ?c= David This is the photo...
... Agreed. Also, a kanban system works by making each stage signal the immediately preceding stage when it is ready to accept new work. This is different from...
