Chris, When I spoke earlier re: the "one" case where most of the team had "nothing to do", this definitely was not a "management" decision to highlight the...
Hi all, I'm working on a little article about CFD and how you can easily make these with Google Spreadhseets. I have made a spreadsheet with some fake data and...
Thanks for putting energy into this! I'll take a look today and see if I can help. E Please forgive if this came across short or poorly crafted, it was sent...
... I have a draft of the article up at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbGwt1TE9pirYWdja2RzZDVud3N2XzU0Yzc5enB3Z2s&hl=en Feedback is welcome, especially on...
Hi Frank, Thanks for this lucid description of what you guys actually do when stories become blocked. You mention that one of the things you do is get on with...
I'll answer for what we did at Inkubook. We added things like this as a small tax on top of other work. If Ken constantly wanted new work done in the same part...
... You mean *increase* velocity right? :-) Maybe I haven't understood what arrival rate means. Does it mean "how many items move from backlog into specify (or...
This is consistent with our approach. We only wanted to see MMF's and stories in user voice. No technical type tasks where allowed on the Kanban board. A...
The notion of a feature tax is very consistent with our practices. When we start an MMF, one of the design question we ask is do we need to improvements to...
Aslak, <<If I know values for L (WIP) and λ (Lead time) at a given point in time - does it make sense to calculate W (arrival rate at a specific point in...
Hi Eric, Thanks for this. Makes a lot of sense, especially if you've got a relatively clean code base. Our situation is slightly different. We have a legacy...
Paul, I agree with you! I am not all that comfortable with a separate stream for improvement. I fail to see how it is a different value-stream. I would be more...
... Am I right that throughput is the same as departure rate? Little's law says that L = λ W: WIP/Lead time = Arrival rate You say that WIP/Lead time =...
Hi Aslak, Am I right that throughput is the same as departure rate? ... Yes. ... If the system is in a steady state, throughput is the same as arrival rate. ...
x-axis is time y-axis is based on business goal e.g. revenue, profit, customer acquisitions, hotel rooms booked, transactions processed, etc, etc In this...
Just as a point of clarification, I entirely agree with you at the MMF level. When you say "My test for this is to put a business stakeholder in front of the...
Paul I've worked on two legacy code bases where it was necessary to do significant technical improvements in order for the system to cope with business change....
Eric, when you mentioned the expand/collapse framework before, I had the impression that both boards contained the same kind of entities, like epics/stories,...
http://open.bekk.no/2009/11/03/cumulative-flow-diagrams-with-google-spreadsheets/ Thanks to everyone who helped out with feedback - especially Olav who did...
Hi Chris 2009/11/3 Chris Matts <chris.matts@...> ... This reminded me of the origin of the MMF - Software by Numbers (which I know you don' like) - where...
Hi Chris, Sorry I couldn't repond immediately - I wanted to wait until I had some time to do so thoughfully. 2009/10/30 Chris Matts <chris.matts@...> ......
