... [snip] ... That is not a productive thing to say. It's also not true, at least in my case. Arlo explains things to his target audience better than the ...
Hi, ... I wouldn't agree here. As much as possible, you'll want to get rid of separate test teams. In most large-scale products, that will take a lot of time...
I also have my PMP certification, I have led the introduction & use of Agile patterns at my workplace, and I'm thinking a lot about Lean patterns (including...
2009/3/1 Brian Marick <marick@...> ... Yep. Unintentional :-) While I don't think its irrelevant, I'm coming round to the idea that for the audience...
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David J Anderson ... "While these japanese guys like to promote the notion of fast setup changes, this simply isn't viable on...
Brian Have you attended a session on Kanban? I suspect the big difference is that you have spoken to Arlo face to face about Naked Planning but your main...
Sorry, folks, I didn't mean to de-rail the thread with my own strong personally-held conviction. My intellectual, I mean the general history of western...
Very kind of you, Matt, There's a term Mike Konrad, one of the authors of CMMI, used in a conversation with me last week (he'd used it before, but for some...
I've put together a draft of all the sessions at the Lean & Kanban conference given the information I have available. Two of the speakers still haven't...
Saw some discussion and wanted to tease it out in to its own topic. I had facilitated such a retrospective a couple years ago and used basically the deck I...
... I think flow is probably a more important concept to focus on - at my presentation at XP Day we talked about 'flow beats batch' and that seemed to resonate...
I've released the final conference agenda. You can download it here. http://www.leankanbanconference.com/agenda.pdf along with the program (draft) released...
Today we are announcing exciting new pricing for the Lean & Kanban Conference. We're responding to market feedback and making the event more accessible. Full...
David, If I'm understanding you correctly, final agenda does not match the new conference format -- the agenda still has the lean and kanban tracks on the same...
Kelly, Thanks for catching that. It was the html that was wrong. It was linking to the wrong file. If you look at the PDF file, you'll see it said "Draft" in...
Hi Aaron, Thanks for this mail! I both agree and disagree with your thinking. Let me explain that. I agree, because what you say makes sense and, when looking...
Folks, I've spent the last 2 nights at the venue for our conference, http://www.leankanbanconference.com/ Here is a brief report... The Mandarin Oriental is a...
Nice explanation Bas, you put into words my feelings and unease with the term. Aaron how could we express what Bas calls "doing" without the limitation and ...
... I was fully trained in Lean back in 1996. Only then they were calling it TQM. It was at a big US company and we tried to use lean techniques foe...
Hi Paul, Thanks for the insights. It is not often we have someone join us who can claim TQM, CMM Assessor and XP practitioner, glad you could join in the ...
Details and Registration here: http://www.gbspin.org/upcoming.html *Presenter:* *Megan Sumrell.* *Description:*** Planning and estimating is always important,...
Hi Robin, Thanks for the welcome. I guess what lay behind my many statements was a question. How does feedback work in Kanban? In manufacturing, you can rely...
Paul, In our Kanban framework, we have feedback in a lot of the same ways we would in an XP fashion. The engineering practices are similar (TDD, sometimes...
