... http://pivotaltracker.com became free to the public quite recently. It was originally developed internally for use on Pivotal labs. It's hosted, and ...
Trac on last two projects. Whenever an mmf or bug fix is code complete it is added to a "ready to release" milestone. The business can then chose to create a...
Joshua I think you are missing the point here. There is a difference between what something is called and what something is. I personally have no issue with...
I haven't done an extensive research on software that are ready for a kanban development process, but my instinct says that there are none specific to kanban. ...
We're using Jira with the greenhopper plugin from greenpepper software, got cards and kanban columns pretty good - still no CFD but getting close 2008/12/1...
I personally believe that you should use a tool that works for your shop. All shops are different, for instance, we are a Microsoft shop, so we use Team...
... I'm with Scott on this one. If we accept that a "Production Ready" queue can grow to any size (with the known risks that come with higher inventory), then...
Joshua Just checked the Industrial Logic web site. Anyone working with Mike Hill is on the side of the good guys. It could be a difference in working...
Chris, ... business values that is important. Why would the customer place value on something that doesn't add value to the business? Or why would a customer...
Eduardo, In our project, the tool was a natural result of our kaizen process. After several months using a traditional kanban board on the wall, we detected...
Currently we are implementing a widget that an operational team maintain through a screen. they have asked for a bulk upload function to sabe them time. They...
Here is my blog post on that presentation... http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/HPgets3.4xproductivitygai.html Sterling Mortensen is the guy. The...
Chris, ... maintain through a screen. they have asked for a bulk upload function to sabe them time. They only need the bulk tool twice a year and then it would...
Eduardo, I believe that might be an interesting idea, you might want to look at extending existing tools rather than building from scratch. For instance, in...
Matt What normally happens is that one group funds the project but they have to rely on other groups as well. The other groups use the opportunity to get other...
... I think you meant: In order to avoid overtime work ops people want a bulk tool. (Value first) Or have you reverted to the Connextra format? Aslak...
... Have you worked with Hill? ... Could be, though we work with lots of corporate machines and plenty o' cogs. ... MMF == "carefully prioritized chunk of...
Eric, After some reflection I realized that customizing an existing tool can be the best way. And you haven't discouraged me. You have opened my eyes! :) ...
I think an MMF is just a story defined at a certain level of specification... During a project, stories get more detailed as you get closer to working on them....
... Only if you are working within the User Story frame. Such a frame is not True, but it may be Useful. MMFs live at different level of abstraction. Corey...
What should drive a cadence is the co-ordination cost of bringing people together to get information required to build code. What should drive the period of...
We have used a heavily customized XPlanner for our own Kanban implementation. More importantly we added a Kanban Dashboard that shows all WIP. We had an...
For jira users, here is another option.... http://code.google.com/p/poormanskanban/ Its currently just a simple kanban-board style(*) view for jira projects,...
"Shameless plug" ... could not resist. GreenHopper is a plugin for JIRA ( http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/en/products/GreenHopper/) that offers very...
This seems like a good point for me to step back in... 2008/12/2 harbert_chris <harbertc@...> ... I think there are two types of value we are talking...
The word "marketable" gives me shivers. Marketing represents a transaction cost of a release. If a release is to be used/purchased, people have to know about...
From the discussion, I think it is clear we need a new term. MMF has too much baggage. When I originally suggested it, I introduced MMF as "a minimum set of...