It will be a good idea to divide team of 20 into smaller groups with some categorization like Application stream ( Mainframe, UI) and run daily stand ups with...
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Peter Bell
freshstartsw
Apr 23, 2012 3:51 pm
I'm a huge fan of physical kanban boards. I have a team where most of the engineers are in a single physical location, but I do have a couple of key engineers...
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Jack Vinson
jackvinson
Apr 23, 2012 4:00 pm
I had a similar question as Karl. Who "owns" this board? I've had great success when the group feels ownership of the board and it becomes their central way...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Apr 23, 2012 4:06 pm
That might be good advice, but I'd look for other, more cross-cutting concerns such as alignment by product line or customer type first. And given the right...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Apr 23, 2012 4:21 pm
+1. Major lightbulb moment after I suggested (ok, I insisted) that the team hold their next retrospective without me. From that moment, the board was mine no...
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tommo245
Apr 23, 2012 4:26 pm
Hi - Thanks for the reply. We actually tried that today with a level of success. But it did lead to people waiting to be asked, and one person running the...
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Dave White
dmhwhite
Apr 23, 2012 4:26 pm
I think it's great that after three weeks you have feedback from the team. I don't think there is anything wrong with any of your implementation details except...
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tommo245
Apr 23, 2012 4:32 pm
I didn't mean for my language to come across like that. We aren't ladling out a bowl of empowerment soup. But without someone getting the ball rolling, without...
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tommo245
Apr 23, 2012 5:21 pm
Hi The immediate improvements we've identified we can make: - too many 'specialists'. When certain people go on holiday, large gaps in knowledge show up, and...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Apr 23, 2012 5:21 pm
"Is Kanban being done "to them" or "by them"?" <---- Excellent point! ________________________________ From: Dave White <dmhwhite@...> To:...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 23, 2012 5:24 pm
For those of you attending the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Boston next month, have you visited the website and created an account? You can create an...
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tommo245
Apr 23, 2012 6:16 pm
Great, thanks Dave. It is an excellent point. Hands up, it has been done to them. I'd argue introducing it had to be done to them by someone to get the ball...
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tommo245
Apr 23, 2012 6:16 pm
I have to admit, shoehorning our workflow into a piece of software has felt restrictive and laborious, where rubbing out a line on a board would have proven...
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Paula Sjöland
zanto_98
Apr 23, 2012 7:23 pm
I have mostly worked on scrum teams, but what I have felt most interesting is when people actually update the group about what they have been doing, that is,...
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Vlad Skvortsov
vskvortsov
Apr 23, 2012 8:08 pm
... We have been using Trello. Although it's not a Kanban tool, it's slick and polished and has an API in case you want to gather metrics or enforce WIP limits...
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Alex Pukinskis
alexpukinskis
Apr 23, 2012 8:47 pm
Years ago, when I tried kanban at the team level for the first time, I had a collocated team, sitting together in one room. The agilist in me really wanted a...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
Apr 24, 2012 3:05 am
Hi Andrea: With my wife we coached a team of teachers of a local primary school, as part of my wife's master thesis on educational management about lean ...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
Apr 24, 2012 3:13 am
Sorry, missed this thread. My wife's written a number of articles about her agile and lean use in curriculum design on her site at ...
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gabby_robertson
Apr 24, 2012 7:51 am
HICSS-46 CALL FOR PAPERS Grand Wailea Maui January 7-10, 2013 (Monday-Thursday) Agile and Lean Organizations Agile and lean approaches promote iterative...
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Juan Ignacio Onetto
jonetto1978
Apr 24, 2012 10:58 am
Hey Peter. What I am thinking is that you could do a search to look for great posts regarding most of the questions you raised for instance how to keep sync...
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craig brown
craig_w_brown
Apr 24, 2012 11:14 am
Ed Wong and I are going to run a Lean-Agile-Systems Thinking conference in Melbourne on July 27th. Its going to be grass roots, cheap as chips and loads of...
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agulez
Apr 24, 2012 12:12 pm
Hi Peter, You might also want to take a look at http://flow.io <http://flow.io> It has a unique feature that allows you to see any past state of your kanban...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 24, 2012 2:37 pm
Lean Camp New England is a one day open space event led by Jim Benson, author of Personal Kanban. It is an opportunity to share and learn about Lean and Kanban...
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Yannick DESSERTENNE
ydessert
Apr 24, 2012 3:42 pm
Hi group members, I'm seeking an affordable kanban software board solution for a small team (15 members) that can be installed on our own server. By looking...
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Sudipta Lahiri
sudiptal_2000
Apr 24, 2012 4:36 pm
Hi Yannick, SWIFT-KANBAN (www.swift-kanban.com) can be installed on your own server. We have satisfied customers who have installed the product on premise. ...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 24, 2012 7:51 pm
SD Times has just published an introductory article on Kanban I wrote for them. I have to thank Janice Linden-Reed for all the hard work she put in helping...
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tommo245
Apr 25, 2012 10:17 am
Thanks to everyone for replying, I will report back with news of successes and failures from the different approaches. One of the developers led it themselves...
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kanban.coach
Apr 25, 2012 5:26 pm
As far as the Kanban community is concerned, is there an established name for the (average) time spent by cards in one specific board column, i.e. time spent...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 26, 2012 2:51 am
Time spent in one column would be "[column name] Cycle Time" Cycle is always an ambiguous term unless qualified with the scope. It's a popular term for local...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 26, 2012 2:56 am
Folks, Just a reminder that Lean Camp New England, a one-day Lean & Kanban open space, unconference is open to everyone as a one day event. You don't need to...
