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...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
May 21, 2008 1:48 pm
Andrei, That's great. Just curious, but are you using Kanban because of the scalability across the enterprise, or other reasons? My talk will not be so much...
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Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-...
dcma_eric
May 21, 2008 2:20 pm
David, We are just starting to implement some limits in our Kanban process. Our situation might be different than yours, but our group supports multiple...
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Ian Brockbank
edinburghscd
May 21, 2008 3:42 pm
Hi David, 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...
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Andrei Nadin
anadin2k
May 22, 2008 7:20 am
No not really, we have struggled in games historically to come up good systems, on my last project here I used SCRUM to some success but again we have had...
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Arlen Bankston
banksar
May 22, 2008 1:22 pm
Andrei, One question regarding your last point: "we define done as a Pre-Alpha state, at the last Milestone before Alpha, we will re-start the backlog and...
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Andrei Nadin
anadin2k
May 23, 2008 4:37 am
Yeah, this is a nice extra we get in games (maybe), because the project and the requirements are never fully defined before we start, we are would...
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David J Anderson
netherby_uk
May 25, 2008 8:03 pm
Indeed! :-) The numbers in the work columns like Dev, Test etc are based on the resource availability. We had a one item per person maximum to eliminate...
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stephan.baranowski
stephan.bara...
May 27, 2008 11:40 am
This might be a dumb question, but I'd like to know the 'usual' practice of processing "issues". I assumed that, when a Kanban card is "unblocked" (meaning...
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Corey Ladas
corey_ladas
May 27, 2008 3:21 pm
Process quality can be tracked by keeping a record of issues and generating a cumulative flow diagram for them. Visual control is the purpose of the pink...
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Pollyanna Pixton
pollyannapixton
May 28, 2008 6:34 am
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Julie Chickering
chicjulie2
May 28, 2008 1:34 pm
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Julie Chickering
chicjulie2
May 28, 2008 1:51 pm
Sorry everyone for the duplicate messages DATE: June 3rd, 2008 TIME: 6:30-8:30 PM LOCATION: Marriot Springhill Suites in Addison. 15255 Quorum Dr. Addison...
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Julie Chickering
chicjulie2
May 28, 2008 9:55 pm
DATE: June 3rd, 2008 TIME: 6:30-8:30 PM LOCATION: Marriot Springhill Suites in Addison. 15255 Quorum Dr. Addison 75001 972-774-1010 $10 - if you pay in...
