Let's say you work on a system comprised of 50 teams working on 25 products from 5 locations, east coast, west coast, Japan, India and the UK (so the sun never...
Aaron, Given the description in the final paragraph that lead time is 4 weeks and you have a release every 2 weeks, then the minimum WIP is 2 projects...
Aaron I do not have a solution so much as a restatement of the problem. The solution will probably require some form of software. The constraint moves and...
Some clarifying questions? How many of the 50 teams are dev teams? How many dev teams does it take to make a coherent whole i.e. UI layer, business logic, db...
Maybe a more basic question, but what is your definition of a defect? I'm in a discussion with our manager of the business analysis (they do our automated...
My view on this is that it is a "defect" if found by something other than the developers or the unit tests, e.g. the system test team, users at acceptance...
Bertrand Meyer gives these definitions: "An *error* is a wrong decision made during the development of a software system. A *defect* is a property of a...
Aaron, Another clarifying question?... Are you trying to reduce this problem to a single virtual-kanban system - a single pipe with a single release train? If...
Yeah, I'd like to come up with a single, recursive, virtual KSSE which deals with the different rolling waves of interrelated products, supported by more than...
One of the issues we have here is that as we adopt Agile, we are getting a much better collaboration between business unit stakeholders and our IT group. As I...
(responding to Eric) ... Whatever the cause for the change, there is some opportunity to consider improving process. It might be that we understood the...
Eric's business analysis manager raises a good point, one we are pondering ourselves at the moment. We have a separate QA group (which I manage) and they...
There are domains where the most efficient way (or arguably the only way) to learn something about your software is by putting it in front of the customer, or...
Hi, I've been following this forum with interest, and have a few questions. 1) I've read that some prefer to track the progress of their projects with a CFD,...
... At any moment, the board represents a snapshot of inventory, or a vertical slice through the CFD. The CFD could measure the throughput of kanbans...
Hi Guys I did a session at Agile North on Kanban a couple of weeks ago. I mutteres a bit and stuck up a slide saying 'Go to google, type "David Anderson...
"There are a variety of reasons to size the stories similarly, although I'd argue that it's most important to set an upper limit and let the natural lower...
I think it really depends on the circumstances and the preferences of the team, so your inclination to use a coarser grained story is probably just fine....
Hi Chris, I think what the game is missing is the simulation of multi-tasking that occurs today - especially for managers who read somewhere that developers...
P.S. The Job Shop game may be even more interesting in the Kanban game because it simulates the problem of what happens if you don't control the flow of jobs...
Hi Chris, (Commenting as someone who was there...) I liked the idea of the game -- kinda reminiscent of Goldrat's matchstick game. As you say, the meaning of...
... Seconded - I think there are some great opportunities for Kanban related submissions to Agile 2008, given the way that it is being structured this year. ...
Hi John ... Yes. See Corey's answer! We "T-Shirt size" (very high level estimate) the postIt notes (actually index cards) and use those numbers for the...
Following up the post about ideas for submissions to Agile 2008, heres a start: Experience Reports - as many as possible! Kanban Tutorial/Workshop - a session...
Karl, when you wrote "We T-Shirt size (very high level estimate) the postIt notes (actually index cards) and use those numbers for the vertical axis." so to...
Spot on Kevin I think the game may have potential but at the moment it is a bit too rough wround the edges. We need to practice and polish if we are going to...
... The sum of the t-shirt sizes. If we have 3 MMFs, a XS, S and an M, and a XS = 1, S = 2 and M = 3, then the vertical axis will be 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. Is that...
Yep thanks, that clears it up. So given that you are using 'story points' I assume you are tracking your velocity and using that for forward planning, rather...
... Yes we are tracking velocity, and use it for some very simple forward planning, but not in as much detail as I've done with Scrum and XP teams in the past....
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