OK, sounds good. As you mentioned, work requests can vary greatly in size. When does a kanban team estimate the size of a work request? Is any effort spend on...
Not sure if this is helpful Martin, but we are trying to estimate each work item using a point system. This is more to help the team understand work in the...
Eric, thanks for your comments. I'm familiar with the point system and planning poker. But, I know it in relation to Scrum, with fixed sprint length. IMHO,...
Hello Martin, There are a couple of schools of thought about estimation. Each has its own +/-. 1. Threshold + kanban limit Work-in-process is limited...
Hi Martin The great thing about the situation you describe is that you know the date that the system needs to be delivered into production on. This falls into ...
Adding to the general thread (having read all the posts)... It's worth mentioning that if the request is really urgent the "expedite" (or silver bullet)...
Everybody thanks for the valuable comments. Although it does sound interesting, I won't have the opportunity to visit Dallas in a few weeks time (The...
Well, I try to be careful about what I'm "in favor of," as I am in favor of whatever makes the most sense for the capability of the team in question. I would...
All, In the course of reading the latest thread on strict deadlines, I realized how often this group uses terms that carry a great deal of meaning for people...
Martin, Sorry for the delay in the reply. We use the points combined with our completion dates to right now for a good cycle time estimate (we're mainly using...
In putting together a workshop for Agile 2008, I ended up distilling my thoughts down to three key concepts - Kanban, Flow and Cadence - hence KFC. The...
Hello, I have just submitted one Lean session. "Learning Kaizen from Toyota [with Mind Map]" http://submissions.agile2008.org/node/2400 I'm thinking of...
I won't make a habit of using my own group to promote my new business but I know that many folks in this group would be pleased to hear that I've started my...
I submitted a new one. ... New Car Development in Toyota http://submissions.agile2008.org/node/2769 Nobuaki Katayama, the chief engineer of Lexus/SC and IS,...
Chris, I would say at this point that Real Options is certainly high on the list of things we think are interesting. Perhaps you could take this up with David...
Oops sorry Thought i had. Damn that reply all button. ... From: Corey Ladas <coreyl@...> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:18:02 To:kanbandev@yahoogroups.com ...
I've been very busy with a lot of changes in my life recently, so I've been tardy submitting to Agile 2008. There are only 5 days to go on the submissions....
Have you seen this video ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpw8h4OGNxg This is a video of a song "Dear XP", and it includes a lot of kanban boards examples and...
Hi all, there is a new session proposal on Kanban submitted for agile 2008 (not by me). http://submissions.agile2008.org/node/3757 with kind regards, Olav...
Interesting! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. If this is selected, I'll definitely attend. I want to see how others are adapting techniques. The author...
This is freaky. I'm working on a spreadsheet to simulate a very simlar game using dice instead of cards. The aim is to create a huge number of simulations and...
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