... wow, hm, compelling and interesting things here. it rings true to me; although it is sorta "viewed from inside" -- i think i've felt that way about other...
As a moderator... ... Personally, I've been holding back as previous feedback has been to step in less, unless absolutely necessary (e.g. personal attacks). ...
Thanks Jeffrey, Can you tell me what improvements you've had so far and, do you have any quantification you cal tell me about? Cheers, Masa ... Thanks Jeffrey,...
Thanks Hillel, It seems symptoms are quite common at governments elsewhere. I am working on a proposal for a government office and they want some data to...
Interesting McKinsey article. Lean is going mainstream in the enterprise. While this does not specifically call out kanban, it speaks about common principles....
Hi, today, when my train was delayed, I created a 2.5-minute screencast about how to create a CFD, just for fun. You can find it here, as well as the MS Excel...
Jim Well said. In addition, when someone is saying this team is mature, They are implying these other teams are immature. Normally the personal making the...
Hi, Are you planning to go to the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference? SIGGRAPH is the premiere conference for computer graphics, visual effects and film production. I...
Agile Games 2011 - Call for Games! Now's your opportunity to share your ideas with the community, refine them and then show them off at the Agile Games 2011...
Hello all, Karl Scotland and I are planning a Kanban games for the 7th March Limited WIP Society meeting, as the best way to learn is to play games. Karl has...
Hi all, On my current engagement I'm analyzing a delivery team (from customer request to rollout) for a client who's been experiencing quality and delivery...
Since January 2010, I'm facing a quite common pattern in some of my customers here in Brazil: multiple value streams (products - most of them internet...
...appears in an article by MIT Sloan Management Review: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2010/12/15/how-multitasking-at-work-can-slow-you-down/ ...
Following on from the discussion regarding the differences between Lean and Agile, I was reminded of Hayes and Wheelwright's Product-Process Matrix. ...
In his latest book, Donald Reinertsen discusses the phenomenon of congestion collapse when utilization reaches a critical level. The classic example is rush...
Folks, For the native German speakers on this list, my book, Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Organization, has just been released...
I am writing an article for the cutter consortium called "Demystifying Kanban by Looking at Kanban Myths." The idea is to explain Kanban in a structure that...
Since June 2010, moneysupermarket.com (based in Chester, UK) has been introducing Kanban across the entire organisation. We now have 6 delivery streams making...
Hello all, At the February Limited WIP Society meeting<http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/kanban-clinic>;we are having a Kanban Clinic where you have...
Hi, today, I did some statistics on a project and plotted a chart that showed cycle time of a story (Y-axis) and start date of development for that story...
Hi, in a few weeks, our team will enter a new phase. We will release V1.0 and will continue working on V2.0 while we also expect bugs coming in from V1.0. So,...
Here's an excerpt of a draft of my Cutter article. I particularly liked this. :) Comments appreciated. The Motivations for a New Method Scrum has been...
I have made a major rewrite of the Kanban Wikipedia page. Please help me make it better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) Best regards Håkan...
Folks, For those of you looking to attend formal Kanban training based on my back and as yet unpublished future material on how we lead and implement Kanban...
Folks, Today is the last day to get your nominations in for the 2011 Lean Software & Systems Consortium awards for outstanding achievement, leadership and...
Dear All A few years ago I intriduced the concept of the Business Value Increment ( BVI ) into this group. Unfortunately I chose the name MMF ( Minimum ...
I was reading through David's book and thinking a lot about the evolutionary nature of change management. Personally I've had far more success taking things...
In 2010 I designed a training activity at Aspercom that explains a lot about Kanban and Lean. I had some from Alisson Vale, and now I decided to share it as...
May be of interest to some of you. I've attached a photo from a recent multi stream data analysis session. We operate 6 main delivery streams (under Kanban)...
