I've been thinking about how we achieve roadmap planning in a product development environment (as opposed to sustained engineering), were we need to give some...
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Aaron Sanders
aremsan
Mar 5, 2008 12:41 am
Last quarter our teams started tracking fairly rigorously what projects are being worked on. there are workflow statuses of 'Unknown', 'In Discussion',...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 5, 2008 4:18 am
Karl, Question 1. What do we commit to completing this week? Is pretty much the standard release cadence question asked at Corbis by the PM who coordinates the...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 5, 2008 4:25 am
Aaron, Have you taken a close look at the two-tiered kanban board approach from the major projects we were running at Corbis. The kanban board was for the...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Mar 5, 2008 11:42 am
... Cool ... I hadn't thought about it that way, but yes. ... Agreed. ... We try to keep MMFs as "Minimal" as possible, but we have a wide variety of work,...
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joe.arnold
Mar 5, 2008 5:55 pm
Right now we're using MMFs + Kanban on a brand-spank'n new product. Here's what I've noticed so far: We've estimated the project, but only to determine...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 6, 2008 2:57 am
Joe, Was there an image attached to this post? [your post didn't make it clear whether we were using our imagination or referring to a photograph] If so the...
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Pollyanna Pixton
pollyannapixton
Mar 11, 2008 4:11 am
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Mar 20, 2008 11:56 am
I've just posted a variation of this email as a blog. http://agilepractitionersforum.com/2008/03/20/kanban-commitment/ Karl...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 26, 2008 8:00 pm
I wanted to bring this scientific paper that I co-authored to the attention of the group. I co-wrote this paper with Merwan Mehta who is a Lean manufacturing...
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stephan.baranowski
stephan.bara...
Mar 26, 2008 9:51 pm
My apologies for my newbie questions: it looks like I fail to understand the pull system somewhere. I browsed through the messages but I couldn't find...
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Chris Matts
chrismatts1968
Mar 26, 2008 10:09 pm
Hi Stephan Do not apologise. It is through questions of people new to the subject that we all learn. Corey, david or Karl will give a good answer. My short one...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
Mar 26, 2008 10:13 pm
... You could have a standard workflow, or any other workflow that makes sense for your project. ... If 'nothing to pull' happens rarely, then it could be a...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
Mar 26, 2008 10:20 pm
Yep, Chris is right on. Kanban is "the thing that makes Theory of Constraints and Real Options part of your everyday existence" :) ... subject that ... ...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
Mar 26, 2008 10:35 pm
... A small inventory buffer is the necessary price to pay for synchronizing variable-sized work items between workers. The trick is to keep the inter-process...
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Kenji HIRANABE
kenjihiranabe
Mar 28, 2008 9:37 am
... In TPS, when no Kanban arrives, meaning your downstream is too busy or has no need to give them products, they don't create things. they clean their...
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chris.matts@...
chrismatts1968
Mar 28, 2008 10:15 am
Kenji I agree with most except the refactor the code. This is a business decision as it has an impact on testing and risk even though the functionality may not...
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Can ATAC
can.atac
Mar 28, 2008 11:52 am
Hi, I'm new in this forum and I just heard about Kanban, so excuse me if I miss some concepts or basic understandings... I envy those who got time to find out...
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chris.matts@...
chrismatts1968
Mar 28, 2008 12:23 pm
We have to be careful in IT. The courage to lose other people's money? Where is the courage in that. In my last role I used to crazy because the developers...
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Can ATAC
can.atac
Mar 28, 2008 1:06 pm
Yes, I agree with you Chris. This should be a prerequisite before refactoring. ... De : kanbandev@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kanbandev@yahoogroups.com] De la...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
Mar 28, 2008 3:09 pm
Hi Stephan - you've already had good answers. I'll see if I can add anything different. ... Congratulations - you've just found a bottleneck in the system ...
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Chris Matts
chrismatts1968
Mar 28, 2008 8:47 pm
Sorry for the terse response earlier today. The curse of the blackberry I suppose. When I talk about the business and value, one of the most important aspects ...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 28, 2008 11:21 pm
I'm with Chris on this one Kenji, I don't agree with your translation to refactoring. I believe that slack resources should focus on process improvement ...
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Stephan
stephan.bara...
Mar 30, 2008 4:35 pm
Thanks everybody for answering my questions. I have another, but I'll start a new thread for that one. Once again, many thanks, Stephan ... From: David J...
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Stephan
stephan.bara...
Mar 30, 2008 4:43 pm
Hi again, What happens -- or how should I handle it -- if a single feature that was worked on by the technical analyst generates different jobs for different...
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Steve Freeman
smg_freeman
Mar 30, 2008 6:12 pm
I disagree with your distinction between refactoring and some of the other activities. Refactoring proper should be a low risk occupation, small scale and...
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Chris Matts
chrismatts1968
Mar 30, 2008 7:18 pm
Stephan David covers this nicely in his presentation which may be available somewhere. One of his teams created a two tier Kanban board. An outer kanban ...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 31, 2008 11:14 pm
Along with the two tiers is the swim lane concept that maintains a kanban limit on MMFs for each feature team working a set of tasks or features. The...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Mar 31, 2008 11:15 pm
I completely agree, so long as the definition of refactoring is as narrow as this. David...
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Joe Arnold
joe.arnold
Apr 1, 2008 2:36 am
I'm totally on board with Steve's definition too. But it's interesting how the term 'refactoring' has grown to encompass more scenarios. A while ago I was...
