David I have a very similar story to the one Jeff Sutherland tells. I lead a very effective group that also did not take into account management. Suffice to...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 26, 2011 10:51 am
This is an interesting instance of what I call "organisations have needs too". I'm sure many of us can think of other similar instances. I'd be very...
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joseph@...
trumpetflickr
May 26, 2011 1:17 pm
Thanks Komal, that's pretty much how I did it. Joseph Sent from my iPad ... Thanks Komal, that's pretty much how I did it. Joseph Sent from my iPad On May 25,...
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pgutierrezn
May 26, 2011 9:04 pm
This morning I realized our 11 cards WIP limit was broken. 16 active cards in the board; 5 over the limit. We're a team of 8 and started using Kanban 3 months...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
May 26, 2011 9:23 pm
You have an explicit policy and you are breaking it. Either the policy needs to change or you need to identify the root cause of the breakage (or possibly...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
May 27, 2011 7:27 am
Hi, ... I like your approach, however I have a question. Did you do the analysis alone or with the whole team together? If you can teach them to do a similar...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
May 27, 2011 7:38 am
Hi, I'm about to introduce the CFD in my new team, but I'm a bit uncertain at the moment, because I don't know when to update the chart. Previously, I updated...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 27, 2011 7:58 am
... Apologies for taking this quote out of context, but I'd be much more inclined to start with the premise that it's a general process weakness rather than...
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Edward Kay
edkay10
May 27, 2011 8:13 am
Hi Zsolt, I suggest you update your CFD whenever any of the work items change state. For my projects, I track the features (work items) in a Google Docs ...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
May 27, 2011 9:28 am
Every work day. Although one Kanban system flows so slowly it only really needs to be done weekly....
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mduvall2002
May 27, 2011 10:28 am
Yes Ed, I would be interested in seeing an anonymised version of your spreadsheet. -Mike...
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mduvall2002
May 27, 2011 10:58 am
I'm currently using Kanban in my company to track the value stream of a software development team. The value stream we are tracking is from "Coding Started"...
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Edward Kay
edkay10
May 27, 2011 11:25 am
Sure - here it is: http://bit.ly/inVaOH I update the 'feature listing' sheet whenever there's a change in stage. This in turn auto-updates the CFD chart (which...
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Eb
amaeze77
May 27, 2011 12:25 pm
In my case, we tried to ensure that we were not the bottleneck/constraint (because that was the perception before I got here). As we have improved, other...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
May 27, 2011 12:32 pm
Hi Ed, ... Excellent! Thanks a lot! Cheers, Zsolt...
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joseph@...
trumpetflickr
May 27, 2011 2:47 pm
Komal and Kanban Group, I wanted to report back to the list, especially given the good advice you sent my way. Definitely the easiest most straightforward way...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
May 27, 2011 3:07 pm
Hello, Joseph. I like your overall approach, and have a concern: ... This seems to me to be fraught, and to embed the whole estimation problem. I look forward...
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mduvall2002
May 27, 2011 4:02 pm
Eb, Thanks for your feedback. I think your points about the danger of having IT trying to unilaterally fix everything are spot on. I did not mean to imply...
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Eb
amaeze77
May 27, 2011 8:14 pm
Hey Mike - Hopefully the change initiative had already identified to some degree how making changes would help the company make more money (or in other ways)...
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joseph@...
trumpetflickr
May 27, 2011 9:28 pm
Hi there Ron, well there is a possibility of endangering the Agile Project Roadmap plan, and releases when we approach the business side. However it's a must....
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jdn3times
May 27, 2011 11:56 pm
FYI to the group...it is tentatively scheduled that I will be giving a presentation end of next week on this. I'll let people know how it goes, if and when it...
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Matthias Bohlen
mbohlende
May 28, 2011 10:58 am
Hello jdn, ... could you post a quick summary of this thread with a short list of the main bullet points about how to pitch Kanban/Lean to High-Level...
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Martin Alaimo
martinalaimo
May 28, 2011 1:48 pm
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jdn3times
May 28, 2011 8:25 pm
I started with: - start with what you have (current roles and practices are respected) - value stream mapping/ visualize WIP (I realize these are a bit...
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Patrick Steyaert
p.steyaert
May 29, 2011 4:39 pm
I am looking for experience of members of the community with managing complex flows. Complex flows can include one or more of the following things: * flows...
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Arne Roock
arne_roock
May 30, 2011 2:37 am
Hi all, finally the Call for Paper for Lean Kanban Central Europe is out: http://www.lean-kanban-conference.de/submissions-reviews/submit-a-paper/ This is the...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
May 30, 2011 5:25 am
I guess our Kanban system involves many of these aspects, we don't have perfect solutions for everything, so I will be interested in following this thread...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 30, 2011 11:43 am
Hi Patrick, My hypothesis is that for managing complex flows, some form of tailored ... From my work in and for large organisations, project management doesn't...
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Jim Benson
ourfounder872
May 31, 2011 3:27 pm
Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know it is the last day in the early bird registration for Lean Camp Seattle. July 16 - 17, 2011 at Seattle's Center ...
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David Peterson
dpeterson72
Jun 1, 2011 5:54 am
I received very sad news yesterday. Eli has aggressive lung cancer and is in a very frail condition. He's receiving palliative treatment. ... David On 25 May...
