Thanks for your responses guys. Really useful. Kurt - That's exactly what I've been experiencing trying to give an estimate. As of now, the system is at 2.5...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Sep 17, 2012 6:18 am
I think its wrong to put a hard boundary to what is kanban and what is proto-kanban. Thats not how our minds work -- boundaries are always fuzzy. We can say...
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Rodolfo Moeller
rod.moeller...
Sep 17, 2012 7:11 pm
Hello, I came across an interesting video made by a guy called Arialdo Martini: http://vimeo.com/33954943 <http://vimeo.com/33954943> Since I couldn't find any...
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Robillard, Michael
iwbipny
Sep 18, 2012 3:14 pm
Although I believe many of the concepts expressed are currently part of many implementations, I have not personally observed the concept of a "visualized...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 18, 2012 3:33 pm
Hi Rob Very nice story and one that highlights that introduce Kanban often meets with no or very minimal emotional resistance. Especially interesting that the...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 18, 2012 3:42 pm
We had a long discussion about this at the Adv Kanban Masterclass in Stockholm last week. Our conclusion is that Pawel is using the charts for a different...
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arialdomartini
Sep 19, 2012 9:36 am
Hi there. I'm copying here what I posted on post's comments Hi Rodolfo. Yes, you are absolutely right: the forge column is hiding most of the process workflow....
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Francois Michas
michasfrancois
Sep 20, 2012 4:31 am
We have this discussion with our people practicing Kanban about what the WIP should encompass. Some people are scoping WIP on the "on going" state of the step...
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Francois Michas
michasfrancois
Sep 20, 2012 4:38 am
As we are meeting different teams to start Kanban, we have this question about the associated board to visualize their process. The concern seems to be more...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
Sep 20, 2012 4:46 am
My response is a bit off of your actual question, but in these situations I tend to ask "If you show this part as multiple columns, how will it impact the...
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Alan Dayley
dayleyagile
Sep 20, 2012 5:14 am
A Kanban board is NOT a status board. Major columns should not be defined representing status states (though you might have a sub-column indicating "Ready" or...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Sep 20, 2012 7:48 am
I don't think there is a "right" answer to this. How would you know what the better strategy for you is? What outcomes are important? Productivity?...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Sep 20, 2012 8:55 am
If you are talking about drawing a CFD, then yes this seems typical. Doing + Done of previous step. For other purposes, such as WIP limits, usually Doing +...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Sep 20, 2012 9:25 am
A couple of pointers: 1) Do read up on the "knowledge discovery process" - start with David's post here ...
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Sep 20, 2012 9:46 am
We WIP anywhere in the process where people are expected to 'do work.' For us, the goal is throughput and to optimize the resources performing the steps in...
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Richard Scott
policy_dev_s...
Sep 20, 2012 10:03 am
Mike, Thanks muchly for that post - it's hit just at right time for my thinking about the design of my whole-of-team proto-Kanban for legislative development....
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Robert Swanbum
rswany79...
Sep 20, 2012 12:01 pm
For us, we are a process oriented organization. We just set up a new board for our configuration management team. We looked at their process document and set...
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alshalloway
Sep 20, 2012 1:43 pm
I admit to not having read all of the threads here, but I thought this blog might be of use. Much of the confusion regarding Kanban boards comes from people...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Sep 20, 2012 5:16 pm
Based on experience helping organizations go agile in the last few years, an emerging attractor for healthier more sustainable results seems to be the...
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Rob_Ferguson
Sep 20, 2012 5:31 pm
Hi David, That's right on. We have a good PMO team here and our communication is good as well. They were not attached to the process they came up with. It was...
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Rob_Ferguson
Sep 20, 2012 5:43 pm
I admit we are in the early stages here but when I evaluate how our board has evolved, the columns are almost "hand off" points -- where ownership of a work...
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Francois Michas
michasfrancois
Sep 20, 2012 7:02 pm
In fact questions are the best answer ever : what is your goal ? what about experimenting the related wip scope adequacy. There's no systematic right answer :...
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Rodolfo Moeller
rod.moeller...
Sep 20, 2012 8:19 pm
Our experience is quite similar to what Robert Swanbum and Rob Ferguson mentioned before. So far, we observed that the main factors for adding or removing...
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Jason
jchyip2000
Sep 21, 2012 9:06 pm
"information radiator" and "visual control" are effectively synonyms. I find it odd to try to create a distinction between them beyond different origins. Re:...
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Francois Michas
michasfrancois
Sep 22, 2012 4:20 am
Thank you very much for all those enlightening answers. It helps to focus on the root cause (the use of a column) not the symptom (number of columns)...
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Andrew Pham
andrewpham74
Sep 22, 2012 3:26 pm
Kurt, First, my name is not Spam as you wrongly wrote. Second, you are also wrong to think that I am Jessica. No, I am not her and she is not doing any paid ...
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Andrew Pham
andrewpham74
Sep 22, 2012 3:43 pm
Kurt, So that you can see that Jessica is not the only one who likes my book, below is another excerpt from someone I had coached on a large Agile project for...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Sep 23, 2012 1:28 pm
As promised: http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2012/09/kanban-the-hard-way/ -- Mike Burrows mjb@... http://positiveincline.com...
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Francois Michas
michasfrancois
Sep 24, 2012 5:50 pm
Great stuff and an example of a rather limited number of columns. Thank you very much....
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 24, 2012 7:17 pm
It's only 1 month until Lean Kanban Netherlands conference. The program has been announced. A strong set of international speakers including Jim Benson and...
