Hello! The New York City kanban meetup liked the Manchester UK's "Kanban Surgery" idea so much, we've decided to steal it and try it out ourselves: ...
Hi Janice, Rather belated response. Apologies. Got busy prepping for Agile 2012 :) ... Apologies, [en]force wasn't the right word choice on my part. I've...
Greetings! Forgive me if my comments below preceived as too rude. One thing I have to disagree with David’s philosophy of Agile community, i.e., about his...
Hi. I should not defend myself for posting a message with misspellings in it since I did check them with my word processor program. Â It seemed to me that ...
Hello group! Apologies if this has been covered in the past, however, I have a question regarding tracking the work via CFD. We work in a scrum-centric org so...
Hi Alex, I usually recommend tracking on the user story level. The reasoning for this is; the user story is the representation of the customer value you try to...
Excellent points here. While CFD's may deliver less value from in a Scrum environment than in a non-Scrum Kanban setting, in my experience they still are...
Generally I am an avid lurker and reader of these interesting Kanban posts, questions, etc. because I am hoping to learn more about Kanban - but today I would...
I pretty much always discourage using sizes for CFDs, Â for both Scrum and Kanban teams. There is a core focus and overhead to having a work unit (story) in...
I see CFDs as very useful when a bigger delivery is being tracked/managed. And in those occasions I find it is useful to use card sizes, especially for the...
Hi All, Great comments and insights! Re: stories or tasks, Alex, largely echoing Håkan's reasoning, in contexts I've worked in that used stories, this too was...
I think there is a parallel with trying to define what Kanban is in general. David recently posted about it being a matter of intent, rather than the actual...
I normally go with count of stories at a given point in time for a given stage. To me, WIP Limits have nothing to do with effort estimates. Rather it is all...
Hi Alex I use a CFD to track at the user story level and at different detail (weekly CFD, daily CFD, a CFD per class of service). To track work at the task...
Hi Karl, I am not sure what you mean when you say "From that perspective, Trello would fit." In the blog, David says "If the intent is ultimately to evolve an...
Hi Folks, Program is now online and registration is open for Lean Kanban France! We are proud to announce David Anderson, Don Reinertsen and Stephen Parry as...
Hi all, this year the conference Lean Kanban Central Europe will take place in Vienna. The date is Oct 22-23 There will be two other events in Europe, all back...
What are the Kanban community's thoughts on use of RACI matrix? Pros: Clear on roles and responsibilities reduces confusion and helps execute better Cons:...
Tony, I've blogged on this many years ago and the articles are included in Lessons in Agile Management book in Chapter 15. A search of Agile Management blog...
Thanks, David. Â I guess I will need to take a look at the book. Â I checked out the articles though. Â I completely agree. Â A and R are different, and you...
The whole point of kanban is to encourage flow. Flow requires constraints. There are programatically no constraints in Trello. You can easily do a kanban with...
... well, even worse, if one looks at things pessimistically, there's what is written down and then there's what actually happens either around the water...
RACI sounds good but I have yet to see it be good in practice. I think this is for two main reasons: 1. The "cons" you mention are usually over emphasized...
For me the cons have for a long time far outweighed the pros. Pre Kanban, I would have said (quite negatively) that roles are too easy to hide behind. In my...
I've seen RACI used fairly well, though that doesn't negate its pitfalls. I've also see it was an added "S" as "RASCI" where "S" is "supports";. Though, to me,...
Right, you definitely have chance to pigeon hole them by defining rigid RACIs. On a slightly different note, I feel this self-organizing is honestly a...
... 2nd'd. for things to work i think either: (a) there has to be buy-in from the ceo on down. (b) or the team has to be so small they can be self-organizing...
