<sarcasm>I am just glad to see we consider success as number of work items collected instead of lines of codes written.</sarcasm> Until they do studies that...
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Derek Neighbors
gplfreak
Sep 10, 2012 6:03 am
That was supposed to read. "some delivered value" ... Derek Neighbors Integrum Technologies ... That was supposed to read. "some delivered value" --- Derek...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Sep 10, 2012 6:10 am
“…but if the team, from leadership to worker-bees, is not making a great effort to actually follow the process, and keep improving the process, then no...
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Michas François
michasfrancois
Sep 10, 2012 6:10 am
We're starting to use Kanban and associated practices. We're tracking cycle time on a control card and tracking events related to mean deviation. As we are...
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Michas François
michasfrancois
Sep 10, 2012 6:10 am
We're starting to use Kanban and associated practices. I'm surprised that there's no standard measure associated with waiting time as it is one of the main...
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jessicacp23
Sep 10, 2012 6:12 am
David, I bought the book but was disappointed by its quality and returned it a few days later. I thought it will be something new but it is in reality only a...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Sep 10, 2012 6:13 am
Folks, FWIW, I'm familiar with the author from the Scrum Development list. He also wrote Scrum in Action and demonstrated on that list that he has detailed...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 10, 2012 6:24 am
Michas, I am not sure I fully understand what you are asking, so let me try some clarifying observations and questions and you can reply with yur thoughts. You...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 10, 2012 6:31 am
Michas, I'm not sure what you mean by "standard measure" in this context. Could you clarify? I was reporting graphs of waiting time versus total lead time as...
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Håkan Forss
hakan_forss
Sep 10, 2012 7:40 am
I use two simple ways to visualize delays. 1. When I have buffer states in the workflow I use a Cumulative Flow Diagram to visualize the wait time 2....
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
Sep 10, 2012 8:00 am
Hi Michas, We're starting to use Kanban and associated practices. ... Good choice :-) ... I'm not familiar with the exact historical reasons, but similarly to...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 10, 2012 8:04 am
Zsolt, Your reply makes me think this subject would make a good session at the next leadership retreat, if we could get a critical mass of attendees with data...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Sep 10, 2012 8:10 am
Hi Michas, A couple of years ago we had "On Hold" as a different state to "Development" so that it showed up in our CFD. It turned out to be less valuable...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
Sep 10, 2012 8:18 am
Hi Michas, We're starting to use Kanban and associated practices. ... I have to ask: why did you start to use Kanban? I'm asking because the reason justifies...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Sep 10, 2012 8:20 am
Even if you give Andrew Spam the benefit of the doubt, and assume Jessica is in fact a separate person who does marketing for him, he has crossed the line as...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Sep 10, 2012 8:30 am
I didn't measure wait times directly, but if you record data for a CFD, then you can calculate average WIP per column. You should also know the throughput. You...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
Sep 10, 2012 8:36 am
Hi Kurt, I didn't measure wait times directly, but if you record data for a CFD, ... I agree with you, however Arne Roock posted the following article on ...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
Sep 10, 2012 8:39 am
Hi David, Your reply makes me think this subject would make a good session at the ... Sure thing. Let me know how I can help. I'll briefly talk about wait...
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Eb
amaeze77
Sep 10, 2012 9:33 am
Hi Tony - What is the criteria for success? Thanks. ... -- blog: http://eikonne.wordpress.com twitter: @eikonne Hi Tony - What is the criteria for success? ...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Sep 10, 2012 12:37 pm
Is this 'waiting time' the time it sits before it enters WIP or just time throughout the process where it would sit? If it's the former, much of that depends...
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Håkan Forss
hakan_forss
Sep 10, 2012 1:16 pm
Hi Michas, I agree with Zsolt. What is it you are trying to improve? Reduced lead time, quality, due date performance? Only actively collect the data you need...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
Sep 10, 2012 3:11 pm
I think my observations generally align with the conversation here. I still see a number of teams that put the dots on the cards to calculate lead time, and...
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Mahesh Singh
maheshsingh
Sep 10, 2012 6:16 pm
Hi David/ Michas, We track and chart both wait time and blocked time (average as well as distribution) in Swift-Kanban besides of course lead and cycle time...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 11, 2012 6:21 am
Sorry Mahesh, My mistake for overlooking you guys yesterday. Thanks for sharing how Swift Kanban supports these needs. David http://djaa.com/...
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Zsolt Fabok
zsoltfabok
Sep 11, 2012 6:42 am
Hi Mahesh, We track and chart both wait time and blocked time (average as well as ... If it is not confidential, what happened after the analysis? Had the ...
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Giovanni Asproni
superaspro
Sep 11, 2012 7:36 am
Hi, I'm sending this on behalf of Jon Jagger, the conference chair. ACCU invites you to propose a session for its leading software development conference. The...
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FireFalcon
fire_falcon_...
Sep 11, 2012 12:26 pm
We have created a report, that shows wait time. http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2011/12/flow-discover-problems-and-waste-in-kanban-2-years-later.html ...
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Mahesh Singh
maheshsingh
Sep 11, 2012 12:52 pm
Not an issue at all David, thanks very much! Zsolt, well, it is still early since we introduced support in Swift-Kanban for the first one (root-cause analysis...
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Rob_Ferguson
Sep 11, 2012 5:43 pm
I've been reading posts here for a while and now it's time for me to contribute… After successfully managing multiple large, monolithic, waterfall releases...
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Rob_Ferguson
Sep 11, 2012 6:10 pm
Thanks Janice. As a manager introducing a large development team to Kanban and limited-WIP, I'm excited to meet up with others to learn and share. Rob...
