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Hello, all, I was interviewed by Tom Caglay about using Kanban in software developmet, and it is podcasted! The title is "Making Tangible The Intangible." ...
I'm wondering if anyone is doing this on a regular basis. In a normal agile project, we would normally do a retrospective after some major release. Since our...
Eric, ... to ... I think it's an excellent idea... enough so that I am going to suggest we try it at our next retro! The one thing we are missing though is...
Hi all, this is my first post on the list, so a quick introduction might be in order. My name is Tobias Fors, and I'm a consultant in Sweden. I'm currently...
Hi Eric, I would recommend starting with a regular retrospective cadence, maybe at a similar interval to the release cadence, maybe every other release. It...
Tobias, I absolutely love the concept of using the "drainage buffers" to provide a trigger point for evaluating the volume and distribution of dropped work. It...
Matt, I was thinking Quarterly because of the value stream mapping idea. But Karl's comments have me thinking at least Monthly for a quick retro. We could do...
Eric L, Is there some appropriate scope-based measure in your system that you could use as a trigger, rather than a timebox? Something like how Tobias uses the...
Very interesting idea Tobias, and thanks for the contribution. One question I would have here, do the A3 post-it's get stale? For example an item is posted...
... This has not yet become an issue, but now that you mention, we might be better off with A4:s. The longer an item sits in the "drainage buffer", the longer...
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Hi all, On our team we have quite a large variability in size of items on the kanban board. We document the product, so our post-its track creating topics for...
My understanding is that it's very important to make the items as normalized wrt size as possible. Coming into kanban from XP/Scrum, I start with large...
Rob, That's interesting that you only allow small sizes into your queue. We can usually split our stories into manageable parts, but sometimes that does not...
Eric, We've just started a (somewhat) formal process of estimating features using t-shirt sizes. But, I'm not sure how to use this information to gauge the...
One simple solution to this problem might be to simply fill your kanban allocation in proportion to the size of the items; for instance, the 10-page item you...
This is a point that we've come to before, and I think there's an ongoing consensus that either point limits or kanban limits are acceptable. There are reasons...
My guess is you'll have will have to gather numbers from here on out. Do you have previous statistics? I'm assuming you've been doing Kanban for a while, just...
Corey, I do agree that estimation is waste. But when we estimate points, we force the analysis to put those features, stories or tasks (whatever you may call...
I tend to agree. I see "Estimating" as serving two purposes - driving analysis, and defining an SLA for delivery. If you want items to have less variability,...
"Without too much waste" Good call. I think this is something we need to continually acknowledge as we discuss these topics. Waste is a highly analog concept...
I like the concept of slots and that based on size items accumulate a certain number of slots. So just to wrap up, our team decided to use the T-shirt sizing....
Yes! One of the things I like most about lean thinking is that the answer to so many questions is something like: "Here are some alternatives, whatever makes...
We score with Fibonacci. 1,2,3 are the norm... 5 is rare... 8 is not allowed without splitting. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Landes Eric (CI/AMM1-NA) <...
Very interesting, we allow up to 21 without splitting. Right now it's a struggle to get folks to split further, but I like the idea of splitting after 8. ...
