I see what Alan means, but at high level this makes sense to use Kanban at Portfolio level. Now it depends how deep you shall manage your Portfolio: projects...
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Ted M. Young [@jitter...
tedyoung
Aug 2, 2012 2:04 am
I've been so busy that I forgot to advertise that I moved the Lean Coffee (San Mateo) to Thursday mornings at 8:30am (to around 9:45am). The info is: Thursday...
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Manuel Mazan
manuelmazan
Aug 2, 2012 3:34 am
Hi Alan Thanks for your email, I actually attended your webinar *Product Portfolio Management: Why It Is Critical for Agile at Scale* with the intention of...
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Jim Benson
ourfounder872
Aug 2, 2012 4:10 am
I love this thread and I'm glad I pushed the issue. So, here's what I'd say to the threads: *WIP Limits* - When Adrian said he puts a (5) in Trello just like...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Aug 2, 2012 4:14 am
Hi Dan, I touched on this topic at last year's LSSC. We use a combination of factors for MMF prioritisation. This model is mainly from a product development...
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Nikolay Sturm
nistude
Aug 2, 2012 5:24 am
... In our daily work we have the most discussion about prioritising different kinds of work against each other like ops-work against product features (we work...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Aug 2, 2012 6:54 am
... We work full stack too. Not every feature needs to have all three factors. Most of the time ops work will use purely class of service and not the other...
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john loveridge
jrbloveridge
Aug 2, 2012 10:15 am
Hi all, I work as tech lead role for a treasury/ trading application and after 1 year into this role, when our dev manager was on holiday, I as his stand in,...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 2, 2012 1:45 pm
On 31 Jul 2012, at 19:27, Dan wrote: [snip] ... [snip] This is what we do - roughly... it's not as linear as it looks here since we kind of explore everything...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Aug 2, 2012 2:23 pm
Hi Jim/Janice, ... That's an interesting distinction to make. Tools that support kanban vs tools that enforce kanban. I'm not entirely sure that the latter are...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Aug 2, 2012 5:18 pm
Adrian, The good tools (those mentioned earlier in the thread) help people by making it very clear when they are breaking the policies, but give them the ...
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David Grabel
dlgrabel
Aug 2, 2012 5:37 pm
Our Kanban team is a software maintenance group. Until recently our prioritization was "sqeakiest wheel" . We have just introduced a process where the...
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Janice Linden-Reed
JLinden
Aug 2, 2012 5:53 pm
Hi Adrian, Tools such as LeanKit, Swift Kanban and Kanbanery all allow you to exceed/ignore WIP limits. This is necessary to allow people to discover the...
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Simpson, Michael G - ...
mgsimpson999
Aug 2, 2012 6:58 pm
Dan - Here's the scratch prioritization process that we've evolved for our software development queue. This is all in the context of a single team having...
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Martin Aspeli
optilude
Aug 2, 2012 6:58 pm
... I think there is some value in setting a largeish limit so that there is some focus. If you have a future backlog that is a 100+ item wishlist, it becomes...
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Martin Aspeli
optilude
Aug 2, 2012 6:59 pm
... In reality, we rely on subjective opinion a lot (what's the next most important thing), usually the opinion of a business owner but with a discussion that...
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Martin Aspeli
optilude
Aug 2, 2012 6:59 pm
... This feels like hair-splitting to me. Surely, the important thing is whether or not you're following Kanban's principles, not the extent to which your tool...
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Ed Kraay
ekraay
Aug 2, 2012 7:00 pm
Can someone pls point me to some good reference material about how to calculate cost of delay. Preferably simple with examples. Drawn in crayon a plus. :) This...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Aug 2, 2012 7:04 pm
Donald Reinertsen's "Flow" book does offer advice but mostly in a comparative sense rather than an absolute quantitative sense. I actually abandoned the use of...
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markn
Aug 2, 2012 9:16 pm
I can only relate my companies experience. We started out using Greenhopper for Scrum. With a new project, we switched to a physical board for the advantages ...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Aug 2, 2012 11:45 pm
The first ever Lean Kanban University Train-the-trainer Course will be held in Buxton, England, Mon-Fri 24-28 September. This is the only opportunity to obtain...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Aug 3, 2012 12:19 am
There was "Lean Knowledge Work" by Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton from HBR October 2011. Karl ... -- Karl Scotland Lean & Agile Coach ...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Aug 3, 2012 2:11 am
My new book, Lessons in Agile Management is now available from major outlets such as Amazon. ...
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Michael Wollin
mdwollin
Aug 3, 2012 4:29 pm
This perhaps? http://hbr.org/2008/06/the-next-revolution-in-productivity/ar/1...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Aug 3, 2012 5:22 pm
Promising as the title sounds given what I was looking for, Ric and Dennis are both friends of mine. This is one article I'm well aware of. Thanks for pointing...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Aug 3, 2012 8:21 pm
I wrote an article on Portfolio Kanban recently which, while it may not answer your question directly, may provide some food for thought. ...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Aug 3, 2012 8:41 pm
For me, cost of delay is all about recognising different kinds of time-related risk and understanding how scheduling systems can work effectively across...
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Martin Aspeli
optilude
Aug 3, 2012 9:08 pm
... Congratulations! Is there/will there be an e-book version? Martin...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Aug 3, 2012 10:42 pm
e-Book yes, but not for a while. Janice has other things to focus on right now. My guess is November for the e-book....
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Dave White
dmhwhite
Aug 4, 2012 3:18 am
As an aside, I'm definitely interested in the book but only in an eBook format. Please let us all know when it is available. Cheers. Dave Sent from my iPad...
