Thanks for the clarification. Happy New Year! ... -- blog: http://eikonne.wordpress.com twitter: http://twitter.com/eikonne...
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alshalloway
Jan 1, 2011 4:15 pm
I thought this blog I just wrote would be of interest to the group. http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/BCUF Alan Shalloway CEO, Net Objectives...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Jan 1, 2011 8:09 pm
Chris, This is a great example of how people resist things emotionally and have to be motivated to change using an emotional rather than logical argument....
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gabriellebenefield
gabrielleben...
Jan 1, 2011 9:02 pm
I've been using solution sets although value increments is pretty nice and snappy. Business value does have a lot of baggage so it might be best to avoid. ...
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Ryan Shriver
mr_ryan_shriver
Jan 1, 2011 9:48 pm
Hey Chris, It sounds like BVI focuses the attention more on what's really important (the ends) and less on the minimum solutions / features / improvements...
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Helen Wu
bhwu98
Jan 2, 2011 3:49 pm
+1 Happy New Year! Helen ... From: Øystein Mehus <oymehus@...> Subject: Re: [kanbandev] Lean Software Leadership was: ...Seddon... To:...
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Dean
deano84tiger
Jan 2, 2011 4:10 pm
... First, standard work is the basis for continuous improvement. You must stabilize the system before you can improve it. You must learn to do both. This is...
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Dean
deano84tiger
Jan 3, 2011 2:20 pm
I also use the A3 approach to "talk" to the business. Brain storming potential solutions then assembling/selecting the ideas into one approach that addresses...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Jan 3, 2011 4:21 pm
Hi Dean, I haven't quite put my finger on it, but I think I was trying to reveal some potential gaps, e.g. between a minimal something that might be considered...
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williamrobertlux
williamrober...
Jan 3, 2011 5:29 pm
I agree with Ryan. "MMF" seems (to me) to be freighted with too much requisite context and inexperienced interpretation that could bog down the process in...
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Paul
paulklipp
Jan 3, 2011 6:29 pm
The annual ACE! Conference will take place in Krakow, Poland from 31 March to 1 April and we'd like lean thinking to be well-represented in the program. If...
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chintamani joshi
chintmanij
Jan 3, 2011 7:31 pm
Hi, Â So far enterprises have been using Kanban system for execution part of software projects. I would like to know any case study on how it can be leverage...
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Eb
amaeze77
Jan 3, 2011 7:34 pm
Per an earlier post, how do we reconcile the Cadillac solution that addresses the BVI with the Pinto solution that could address it too? This is where...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Jan 3, 2011 8:32 pm
I agree. Maybe its because we are a product company, so MMF has more meaning to what we do. 'Minimum' is important - what minimum tells me is to look at my ...
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Eb
amaeze77
Jan 3, 2011 8:46 pm
... I personally struggle with the words "big" and "break", but that may be semantics. :) I'm not looking to break things down further but rather understand...
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Richard Hensley
rhensley99_m...
Jan 3, 2011 9:24 pm
Why does it matter if your business asks you to build a bus instead of a bicycle? In our case, our product management has accountability to revenue and ...
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Chris Matts
chrisjmatts1968
Jan 3, 2011 9:36 pm
Richard This is where we have a very different view of the IT function. Most of the time, the business find it very difficult to articulate what they need....
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Richard Hensley
rhensley99_m...
Jan 3, 2011 9:41 pm
I believe I'm starting to see the disconnect. In my business, the folks who ask "why?" are part of product management not engineering. They are fully capable...
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Eb
amaeze77
Jan 3, 2011 9:51 pm
... That's a good situation to be in, but I've never been in such a situation (yet). Most of the time, the folks asking for functionality (as Chris noted) are...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Jan 3, 2011 9:56 pm
I believe there will be a couple of these case studies at the Lean Software & Systems conference. http://lssc11.leanssc.org/ I am not aware of anything that...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jan 3, 2011 10:39 pm
Hello, Richard. On Monday, January 3, 2011, at 4:24:39 PM, you ... That's interesting. Have the business people, in the view of engineering people who have...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jan 3, 2011 11:17 pm
Hello, Richard. On Monday, January 3, 2011, at 4:41:17 PM, you ... In the sense that I understand the words, yes. However, an important input to deciding...
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Eb
amaeze77
Jan 4, 2011 1:21 am
... And even if it does (and I believe it could), it's still potentially revolutionary i.e. Big Change which is why none of these methods is a panacea. This...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Jan 4, 2011 2:13 am
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Siddharta Govindaraj ... It might be my Agile bias, but my opinion is that even companies that do not see themselves as...
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Ged Byrne
gedb01
Jan 4, 2011 1:34 pm
David, I don't know if you've seen this video yet, but it's a talk by Daniel Pink's about what truly motivates us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc ...
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Dean
deano84tiger
Jan 4, 2011 3:19 pm
Forgive the self promotion. This case was presented at LSSC10 and uses Kanban for both development and strategy deployment. ...
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Julian Everett
julianjeverett
Jan 4, 2011 3:49 pm
Ø In other words we build MMFs (or BVIs) by building the appropriate MVFs to aid our discovery. Sometimes we'll discover an MVF can be released and is...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Jan 4, 2011 4:13 pm
... I agree. I think Czikszentmihalyi's Flow model is another one we should be using for learning and improving. I blogged about a slightly different ...
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Julian Everett
julianjeverett
Jan 4, 2011 4:34 pm
Ø Engineering is accountable to productivity and capacity. Depending on the organisation, the potential problem with this is that it creates local...
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Ged Byrne
gedb01
Jan 4, 2011 4:55 pm
Karl, When you say 'another one' do you mean alongside Theory of Constraints, Theory of Profound Knowledge and Lean Economics? Just making sure I'm reading you...
