In, "Leaning Toward Utopia" by Art Kleiner he says: The phrase "lean production," as a universal way of describing the Toyota system, first appeared in The...
Folks, Many of you on this list are experienced Kanban practitioners. Many of you came to Kanban because something else wasn't working for you. We continue to...
Hi, Because emails send by systems are waste of time for the team, I prefer visual signs, but real ones, not something on the computer screen. Consequently, I...
The text for my speech from Sunday night at the UK Lean conference is now available in PDF http://tinyurl.com/ycfsjxl For your convenience I am also pasting it...
after the UK Lean conference, hanging out with Don Reinertsen and David Anderson, I had a few thoughts about the essence of Lean and therefore Kanban. Put them...
Hi all, We're currently seeking sessions for the 2010 BCS SPA conference, to be held in London next May (http://www.spaconference.org). Would be great if we...
Folks, A while back, I posted that I had given a Kanban presentation comparing Scrum and Kanban teams working on the same set of stories. Some people had...
Hi, I'm new here and am looking forward to contributing. One of the sites I work on is Mousebreaker.com and one of the things that we endeavour to do is ensure...
Hi All, Just blogged. Feedback welcome as usual. http://availagility.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/xp-as-a-kanban-system/ During recent discussions with XP folks on...
Hey everybody - My colleague Andy Edmonds (UX heavyweight at VersionOne) and I have proposed a session for SXSWi that I think might interest people here. ...
Hi all, This is to remind you that the deadline for the CfP for the next ACCU conference is in 4 days, the 30th of September. I'm looking forward to receiving...
All, You are all cordially invited to the London Limited WIP Society meeting on Tuesday 29th September 2009, at the Counting House pub in London (near Bank...
I know that in Lean manufacturing there is a strong emphasis on doing the work correctly the first time and reducing, or eliminating, the QA step (with they...
Hi folks, I have got access to some historical data for a project I haven't been involved in. One of my tasks is to recommend process improvements. The people...
Hello All! There will be several Agile events going on in the London area in the next few weeks. COCKTAILS AT BLUE ANCHOR PUB Thursday, 24 September and 1...
Hi All, Last week I ran the first prototype version of 'The Kanban Game' that I've been working on, to try and teach the principles of a Kanban system used to ...
Hi all, I've just announced the formation of Limited WIP Society KC (Kansas City). If you live in the area and are interested in participating in a local ...
I've set up a kanban for an authoring process where we've mapped our stages in the workflow on a white board. One stage is clearly our bottleneck becomes items...
In the process of pitching Kanban to the interactive agency I work for, I wondered if it was possible to condense the essence of Kanban into a diagram, similar...
I hope the group will allow a little humour into the debate. A couple of events led to the creation of a little song about lean. I was thinking that some of...
All, I'm planning to hold a London Limited WIP society meeting on the evening of 30th September (the day after the end of the UK Lean Conference). So far I've...
I struggled for a while to understand the benefit switching from Velocity to cycle time (for ex, could not see why size wouldn't introduce variance into it in...
Mary Poppendieck Lean Class - London October 1-2 Leading Lean Software Development - an advanced Leaders workshop. Hammersmith, London. October 1-2, 2009 ...
I want to put some definition around this as it definitely causes confusion. So here is how I use these terms... (#1) kanban (small k) - meaning signal card -...
