That's a very interesting idea Eric. I think I will do that, it will cut down on the number of swimlanes/parking lots in my design! I'll game it out with...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
Sep 1, 2010 10:51 pm
You don't need to wait for the board, btw... Strap some electrical or blue masking tape to the wall and get started... you can evolve super-rapidly while...
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yuvalyeret
Sep 2, 2010 6:46 am
I would add that from my experience, many tools provide mainly an operational view CFD - what is the current state, as well as history, which can help you...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Sep 2, 2010 6:42 pm
It makes sense to me :-) At David J. Anderson & Associates, we are seeing increasing demand for project management guidance - planning, tracking, reporting. I...
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timswise@...
yoshidog78
Sep 2, 2010 8:11 pm
Hi All, I have a Kanban game exercise that I am having a bit of trouble getting people to review and give feedback on. If you have a moment check it out and...
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bbozzuto
Sep 3, 2010 1:04 pm
Hi Tim, what exactly are you hoping to the teams to learn as an outcome of this exercise. I can see adding the signatures will create quite a bit of confusion...
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Alan Baljeu
alanbaljeu
Sep 3, 2010 2:03 pm
Our board is currently failing to answer the question "what is supposed to be working? Most of the board contents are bugs to fix, and there are some cards...
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yoshidog78
Sep 3, 2010 2:04 pm
Thank you for the feedback first and foremost... "Have you run this game yet? What has your experience been?" Yes, I have run this game once with two teams of...
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Joshua Kerievsky
jlk112067
Sep 3, 2010 2:06 pm
... We primarily use automated tests for that purpose. Do you have a suite of such tests? Also, how does Exploratory Testing fit into your process? -- best, ...
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Alan Baljeu
alanbaljeu
Sep 3, 2010 2:14 pm
Sorry I shouldn't have used the word 'still'. The features in question have never worked to the required level, but we hope now are there. We have automated...
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Nikolay Sturm
nistude
Sep 3, 2010 2:19 pm
... We complement our post-it based kanban board with a redmine server (http://www.redmine.org/) where we track all additional information. Each card...
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Cuan Mulligan
cuan.mulligan
Sep 3, 2010 2:29 pm
Hi Alan, Perhaps you can post an image of your board ? cheers cuan...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Sep 3, 2010 2:51 pm
My reaction is that although that you may need to focus in the short term on stablisation, your longer-term aim should be to keep bugs off the board (other...
I agree but this doesn't help the present. Fact is, we have unfinished features and the entire month maybe more is strictly addressing these. My thought is...
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Alan Baljeu
alanbaljeu
Sep 3, 2010 4:00 pm
New thought: Maybe we just need to scale down: Work on one feature and test one feature. Alan Baljeu ________________________________ From: Alan Baljeu...
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Mike Burrows
asplake
Sep 3, 2010 4:14 pm
... Mike mjb@... http://positiveincline.com http://twitter.com/asplake...
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Alan Baljeu
alanbaljeu
Sep 3, 2010 9:38 pm
We changed our layout today! Now we have 12 columns. Most columns represent a major feature. Each card is flagged as either: Planned (as in we plan on fixing...
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joanielsmith
Sep 4, 2010 4:21 am
So I'm not sure I'm completely following this thread so I'm hoping someone can dumb it down a bit. I somewhat recently became the PM of a team that had been...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Sep 4, 2010 4:59 am
Joanie, Tech folks like us need to translate development metrics into business metrics for stakeholders. Stakeholders think from a business point of view, and...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Sep 4, 2010 5:05 am
... I think thats on the right track. I'd choose one feature, fix _all_ the bugs for this one feature, get if fully working, write automated tests, manual...
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Dale Emery
dalehemery
Sep 4, 2010 5:22 am
Hi Alan, ... You can write automatable tests before you automate them. And you can automate tests before you write the feature, and even before you write...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Sep 4, 2010 6:11 am
Joanie, For a team that is working in Project-mode like you're describing, the answers to "Are we on track to delivering on our commited scope for the release"...
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Alan Baljeu
alanbaljeu
Sep 4, 2010 4:19 pm
I understand and use TDD. But I was referring to system level tests. And although in principle system level tests could be automated beforehand, in the...
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Dale Emery
dalehemery
Sep 4, 2010 5:43 pm
Hi Alan, ... I was referring to system level tests, too. Sorry if that wasn't clear. ... There may still be value in writing automatable examples, even if...
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Agustin Villena
agustinvillena
Sep 5, 2010 8:39 pm
Hi! Now I'm studying the "Recipe for success" on the Kanban book by David Anderson. This text is writen for technical managers, and is arranged so that the...
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EladA
amitelad7
Sep 6, 2010 6:03 am
Looking for a good presentation showing CFD patterns for an organization using kanban...
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Siddharta Govindaraj
photon_ent
Sep 6, 2010 7:47 am
... Here are a couple - http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32410 and http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2006/09/creating_and_in.html -- ...
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Mattias Skarin
i92matsk
Sep 6, 2010 2:59 pm
Actions that might carry you in the right direction (if no courage exists to enforce wip) - decrease size of work (you might need to invest your way out of...
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Henrik
refactored_m...
Sep 6, 2010 3:18 pm
Hi Augustin, You might try running a simulation that shows what happens to throughput under different conditions. Depending on your preferences, you can use a...
