Chris, Talk about remembering old days - remember when BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) was all the rage - promoted by some consultants to senior...
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Stephan
stephan.bara...
Apr 1, 2008 9:37 pm
Hi again, Some more questions came up when watching the Yahoo videos: Is lead time measured from the day it becomes available in the Kanban slot or from the...
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chris.matts@...
chrismatts1968
Apr 1, 2008 11:55 pm
... From: Stephan <f8inu@...> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:05:40 To:kanbandev@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kanbandev] Two more questions Hi again,
Some more...
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Stephan
stephan.bara...
Apr 2, 2008 3:21 am
Thanks, This helps. I also watched the Yahoo video which helps a lot in understanding the slides. I'm introducing the board to the team tomorrow. My first...
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Stephan
stephan.bara...
Apr 2, 2008 3:21 am
Hi again, Some more questions came up when watching the Yahoo videos: Is lead time measured from the day it becomes available in the Kanban slot or from the...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 2, 2008 3:26 am
1. Lead time is measured from entering the input queue. 2. Sure multi-assignment is happening but it is (generally) not ideal 2b. I would stick with two...
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Henrik Mårtensson
refactored_m...
Apr 2, 2008 12:01 pm
... <snip> ... Kanban slot or from the day someone starts working on it? ... it is released in production? I too, had a bit of trouble with this at first. ...
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gabby_robertson
Apr 4, 2008 3:38 am
It's time for you to get your most scintillating Agile (Kanban?) theories together, write a kick-ass paper that could get published in the IEEE library and...
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lindamcook3000
Apr 10, 2008 6:53 pm
I recently started a Kanban pilot for an Infrastructure project. The team has some experience using Scrum and we thought Kanban SD offered some interesting...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 13, 2008 4:18 am
I'm working with a team that is doing mixed-mode stuff where IT infrastructure work is processed through the same work flow as software development. I've also...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 15, 2008 8:22 pm
Hi folks, Save the date! July 17-18 The next APLN regional Leadership Summit is coming to Seattle. Here is a blog post announcing it. More details will follow...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
Apr 23, 2008 12:55 am
I wanted to let folks know that I've posted a Kanban Process Template for Team Foundation Server <http://www.codeplex.com/KanbanTFS>; on codeplex at...
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Pollyanna Pixton
pollyannapixton
Apr 28, 2008 3:49 am
*Attend the Agile Leadership Summit in San Francisco, May 5th! * Sign up now and get a $200 discount (use promotion code b200) ...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
May 2, 2008 12:49 pm
TriFork want to fill the room up at the Agile Leadership Summit in San Francisco on Monday. They are offering a special discount to members of this group -...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
May 9, 2008 4:09 am
The next APLN regional Leadership Summit will be held in Seattle on July 17-18 at The Edgewater hotel on Elliott Bay in downtown Seattle. [Sponsors to be...
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kelly_york2
May 13, 2008 8:16 pm
My company is just started learning about Kanban and we're taking the plunge. In one of David's power point slides I see "PDUs" mentioned with CR/Bugs. Also...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
May 14, 2008 9:38 am
It's not really sanguine to the kanban story. PDU is a quirk of the Corbis processes. PDU = Production Data Update. It's anything that involves changes to the...
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Stuart Corcoran
stuart_corcoran
May 15, 2008 3:21 am
I have been gone from the company for a while so David or someone who is still there can probably respond in more detail, but here's what I recall. I'm not...
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Karl Scotland
kjscotland
May 15, 2008 9:33 am
There's a brief interview with Corey in this months iterations eNewsletter on Applying Kanban to Software Development ...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
May 19, 2008 3:52 pm
Hey folks, I'm giving a talk in June on using kanban with TFS in Indianapolis. I'm curious as to how many companies are using this method in their software...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
May 19, 2008 5:21 pm
Eric, We're using it within the Indianapolis division of Authorhouse to some extent. The details are emerging as the managers learn how to use the system most...
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Rob Park
rpark68
May 19, 2008 5:35 pm
We're using a very rudimentary application (meaning far from perfect) of kanban concepts within our scrum management process in order to help control flow. ...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
May 19, 2008 6:11 pm
Thanks Eric, I wasn't sure who you worked for. I don't want to give off the idea that our group are complete gurus at this. We have a long way to go. But...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
May 19, 2008 6:11 pm
Rob, I'll try to post those slides somewhere. I'll let you know when they are available. Eric ________________________________ From: kanbandev@yahoogroups.com...
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Andrei Nadin
anadin2k
May 20, 2008 3:33 am
We are beginning to use it in game development here (Tantalus, Melbourne, Australia), just started and again, getting to grips with it, we are not using Team...
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dches369
May 20, 2008 2:33 pm
I'm curious to know how one determines kanban limits on the board. I see in David Anderson's slides that at the top of each column is a number that I presume...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
May 20, 2008 3:41 pm
You can pool a limit over multiple columns. Sounds like you have an implicit limit by making a multitasking rule. Separate limits are most necessary when...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
May 20, 2008 3:55 pm
sorry, the limits are (proportional to) the ratios of cycle times of each state. the goal is to make the throughputs all the same no coffee yet -c...
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John Clifford
john_g_clifford
May 20, 2008 5:45 pm
I thought the kanban limits were representative of both the cycle time and the available resources, e.g., if testing takes 50% of the man-hours that dev takes,...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
May 20, 2008 6:18 pm
The number should reflect how many resources you need more than how many you have. If you start with 2 devs and it takes each 2 days to add their value to a...
