Hi David - Right, I think it's key to not just say "reduce your delivery to smoothen out the overall flow" but also have something else that they could help...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 16, 2011 1:06 am
Hi, Folks I came up with a definition for projects many years ago that might be of some interest here. It is "All the money that has been spent on projects...
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Jeff Anderson
thomasjeffre...
Jul 16, 2011 8:37 pm
Laurence, Glad u like! Always happy to hear that someone else finds value in stuff I've put together... Jeff Anderson agileconsulting.blogspot.com ...
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Jeff Anderson
thomasjeffre...
Jul 18, 2011 12:30 pm
If the th Jeff Anderson agileconsulting.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/thomasjeffrey...
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joseph@...
trumpetflickr
Jul 18, 2011 6:01 pm
Bill, Guess what, I uploaded it to Slideshare, so it should work in Chrome too, here it is on my personal site, with a link to Slideshare and iWork. As always,...
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Bill Ramos [Microsoft]
billatms
Jul 18, 2011 7:11 pm
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emil_vikstrom
Jul 20, 2011 2:46 pm
Hi Henrik This setup is quite similar to what I am helping in setting up in /// right now. Good reference implementation. Easier to point to this than buying...
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Bill Ramos [Microsoft]
billatms
Jul 21, 2011 8:17 am
Friends must help each other so I think you should improve your health immediately.. http://minivague.com/bestsite.php?fucpage=40ga6...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Jul 21, 2011 11:04 am
FYI. I emailed Bill after his last rouge email and got no response. I've now put his account on moderation until we can sort this out. Karl ... -- Karl...
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Jeff
jboring54
Jul 21, 2011 2:57 pm
Anyone have a method to create story cards from TFS 2010 for my new Kanban board?...
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Janice Linden-Reed
JLinden
Jul 21, 2011 6:21 pm
You might look at Visual WIP for TFS http://visualwip.codeplex.com/...
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Jef Newsom
jef_newsom
Jul 21, 2011 8:32 pm
I don't have anything canned, and so I may be telling you something you already know, but the approach I take is: Query for needed "work item" data, export...
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Richard Hensley
rhensley99_m...
Jul 21, 2011 8:47 pm
Are there so many needed at one time that hand writing note cards is not an option?...
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Dan Bradley
codingzen
Jul 22, 2011 8:23 am
I agree, I got a batch of a7 cards printed with the fields in place and then hand write the data. I figure that the time to print on demand and cut out would...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Jul 29, 2011 1:37 pm
Hi, our Kanban system is a little different from many I have seen in that our backlog, and input queue are in the middle. Upstream of that we have our sales...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Jul 29, 2011 1:49 pm
It seems there is way too much variability to have sales on your board. If you decide to keep it on the board then maybe have a "Ready" column in which to...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Jul 29, 2011 2:29 pm
When you say board, you mean separate Kanban system right? We currently have everything over 3 physical boards, just to have enough room for all the cards, but...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Jul 29, 2011 2:30 pm
We have a separate board for the sales pipeline. There aren't any explicit limits at the moment, but each sales person has a top 5 for focus, and we have daily...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Jul 29, 2011 3:37 pm
comments below... From: Kurt Häusler <kurt.haeusler@...> To: kanbandev@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [kanbandev] Any...
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Craig Hyatt
cw_hyatt
Jul 29, 2011 7:08 pm
Hi, In another thread<http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbandev/message/13071>;from today, Kurt asked: *Do you have separate teams for dev and maint? or...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Jul 29, 2011 7:23 pm
Yes, Kanban can help. Categorize your Kanban cards with the different types of requests/work activity. Also swimlanes can be utilized. We have 8...
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Helen Wu
bhwu98
Jul 29, 2011 9:11 pm
@Craig: you said, "Are we doing it wrong? Do we just need to boards (systems)? Can Kanban help?" If Robert 's suggestion to you can be viewed as bottom-up...
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Helen Wu
bhwu98
Jul 29, 2011 10:09 pm
Hello Ron, my reply to you seems lost in space. Since my answer tied with my understanding of software, and I like to hear your reply of my answer to you, let...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 30, 2011 2:05 am
... If we have to debug, then we should by all means try to learn from it. However, when they asked us to write the software, they did not ask us to put...
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Jack Vinson
jackvinson
Jul 30, 2011 2:29 am
I don't think you are doing it wrong. You are doing it how you are doing it. One of the principles I like in David Anderson's approach is that Kanban isn't...
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Dennis
dennisstevens
Jul 30, 2011 1:35 pm
Kurt, I have addressed this situation with several clients of the past few years with various implementations of a pattern that is working consistently. The...
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Dennis
dennisstevens
Jul 30, 2011 1:39 pm
Ron, I am have personal experience that supports you declaration that TDD and pairing dramatically reduce error. I sometimes have a request for case studies or...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 30, 2011 1:46 pm
Hi Dennis, ... In fact I do not. My belief is that a request for case studies and/or research is just a way of saying "go away". :) Ron Jeffries ...
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Rasmus Larsson
resu_cireneg
Jul 30, 2011 6:15 pm
Hi, What is the actual "work" being done (WIP)? To me it doesn't seem to be the potential customers themselves but the actual workshops, phone calls, meet and...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Aug 1, 2011 8:24 am
Hi, Currently our Kanban tracks larger BVIs (we call them features) rather than user stories. At first I was skeptical but it turns out our customers really...
