I transform enterprises for a living. As I ease my way out of an engagement, my apprentices want to know if they are ready to perform their new duties. As in...
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Juan Ignacio Onetto
jonetto1978
May 13, 2012 4:09 pm
I'm thinking if it's not worth to send out some type of survey ( if not done already ) to the community and see what comes up. .. I know the program is already...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 13, 2012 11:32 pm
Hi! In a previous thread I asked about multiple options versus focusing one thing at a time, My conclusion from the received answers (thanks guays) was : "in...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 14, 2012 2:47 am
Hi Agustin, Greetings from Boston :-) I think you may be on to something - options cease to be options as soon as one party or another starts to treat them as...
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Irizarry, Gil
irizarrygil
May 14, 2012 4:02 am
In the game, do the matchsticks move only one station per day? Is the theoretical minimum cycle time the number of stations or is it less than that? Thanks, ...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
May 14, 2012 10:56 am
Its a long time since a played it, but as I recall, the dice are rolled from "right to left" - downstream to upstream - so matchsticks will only move one...
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Andrew Pham
andrewpham74
May 14, 2012 3:28 pm
I had to deal with more or less the same situation just a few months ago still when I was the Agile and Lean coach with a very large corporation where the...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 14, 2012 10:13 pm
TBH, splitting teams would be lower down my list of interventions. One of the key strengths of Kanban is that you can so easily design or evolve resilient...
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Piotr Zielniok
pzielniok
May 14, 2012 10:14 pm
Hi Andrew, Thank you for your suggestion! My team is small (3 to 4 developers) and we are supporting 2 totally separate products (separate clients, separate...
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Andrew Pham
andrewpham74
May 15, 2012 1:09 am
Hi Piotr, Thank you for more insight into your situation. I do not mean splitting the team up into sub-teams will always be the solution but it worked ...
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Eb
amaeze77
May 15, 2012 2:09 am
Hi Piotr - Before deciding how to break up the team, have you really studied how the work itself flows in? What's the demand? When do things need to be ...
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Piotr Zielniok
pzielniok
May 15, 2012 2:10 am
Hi Mike, I was thinking about the method I was going to use for some time and I came to the conclusion that it can be a good start but definitely it doesn’t ...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 15, 2012 2:24 am
Superb! -- Mike Burrows mjb@... mike@... http://positiveincline.com/index.php/about/ http://twitter.com/asplake ... Superb! -- Mike Burrows...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 15, 2012 12:18 pm
Hi Mike My situation is a bit different from your example. The most relevant case of options is when you are researching different paths to solve a hard ...
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Dave White
dmhwhite
May 15, 2012 3:17 pm
Hello Augustin, I'd suggest that the intent of limiting WIP is not to limit options. Is context-switching expensive? Is over-burdening self-defeating for ...
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Tony Lew
sankwon
May 15, 2012 4:11 pm
Hi All, We have a open position at NBCUniversal for "Director of Enterprise Services". This person will wear mainly two hats: 1) lead the QA team who supports...
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Adolfo
apd486
May 15, 2012 7:54 pm
Ron Ashkenas argues that it could: blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2012/05/its-time-to-rethink-continuous.html What do you all think? Adolfo...
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Alan Dayley
dayleyagile
May 15, 2012 8:07 pm
The article reads as if everyone is trying to improve everything all the time. That would be certainly be unreasonable and lead to bad side effects. I coach...
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cpgmattr
May 15, 2012 8:15 pm
Hi Adolfo: I think the comments below the article sum up pretty well my thoughts on this article. In short—it's somewhat of a controversial topic to bring...
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Jack Vinson
jackvinson
May 15, 2012 9:30 pm
The title is BS, but the three "bold" points he makes are valid, I think. Don't forget to read the ~200 comments, if you dive in. Don't assume ...
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Patrick Steyaert
p.steyaert
May 16, 2012 7:08 am
I think what we are trying to say is that you need to make a difference between options and commitments (work). You want to put a max limit on the work in...
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Ed Larmore
virbots2
May 16, 2012 4:54 pm
I do not agree with this blogger. He argues that CI is not good for R&D teams, yet our R&D team proved just the opposite. By measuring the performance of our...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
May 16, 2012 5:36 pm
Hi Patrick, ... similar situation with a team ... of service that expresses the ... to have a quick look at, ... options you want to just exercise (develop). ...
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Patrick Steyaert
p.steyaert
May 16, 2012 8:48 pm
Hey Mike, ... Yep, we are talking about the same thing. ... I don't think there is confusion neither. Just wanted to point out that I was not talking about...
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Esteban Roasio
estebanroasio
May 17, 2012 1:27 am
Hi All, how are you? I'm doing my degree thesis. It is about kanban implementation in a real situation where a team should manage multiple projects at the...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 17, 2012 2:48 am
Hi Dave I agree with your reasoning, but I din-t catch yet the best criteria to, with a small team as is in my situation, navigate the options resisting the ...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 17, 2012 2:52 am
Interesting When we received David in Chile last year we visited an R&D Department at a local bank where we are implementing agiles methods + design thinking. ...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 17, 2012 3:01 am
Hi Patrick: You just gave to me some hints about how to implement stage-gates http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/02/rockets-cars-and-gardens-visualizing.html in...
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Patrick Steyaert
p.steyaert
May 17, 2012 6:28 am
Hey Agustin, ... Nice to hear :-) You might also want to take a look at my recent blog post:...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
May 17, 2012 10:35 pm
... Great! Added to readability! ... Canvas, but is really a mess to derive a working plan from it. I'm trying to smooth the transition from the BMC to an...
