I,m with David on this. Although Kanban is a sophisticated method, implementation is fairly easy. I.e. Making it work is easy, understanding how and why it...
I agree... Karl, this is a GREAT introduction article, and had immediately been forwarded to people that have been stuggling to understand why it all works. E...
... I'm currently working with an organization which have multiple teams. I've switched one team to using a Scrum/XP hybrid and another team to a more Kanban...
I haven't been as contributory on this list as I would like. One of the encouraging aspects of initiating a kanban system for me is that the teams begins from...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the kanbandev group: Which types of teams have you been on that converted to Kanban? o Highly Agile...
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... It would have been nice to have a vote option of "Hope to convert to Kanban on future project". --Bruce ************** Plan your next getaway with AOL...
Hi Bruce, It's on there now. Any others anyone else would like to see added? Feel free to answer any of the polls there, or contribute to files as well. ...
I appreciate your feedback. Consider the following scenario: A waterfall project with no agile experience starts a kanban project. They limit WIP, get the...
Michael, "Does this not fit with your experience? In your experience does the simple motivation to increase flow of WIP enable teams to discover on their own ...
... I think there is a tendency to attribute things to "new" methodologies that have really been around a long time. Showing my age, I was working on ...
... Literal problem right now: You work for a silicon valley corporation and the CEO wants to make promises to key customers about exact features and delivery...
If you don't understand the rate of production, what do you base the dates on for feature delivery? If it is estimates of time, what is the basis to these...
Hi Bruce, Word to the automation! I wonder when common sense best practices became "Agile"? It must mean there are more than a few ad-hoc shops out there with...
Aaron, ... <snip/> This sounds like the guys a few years ago who kept writing articles saying "AJAX isn't new.. I have been using XMLHttpRequest for years!" I...
Hi guys, I was looking for articles on retrospectives and I've found an interesting powerpoint presentation from High Moon Studios (famous for doing game ...
2008/11/3 Eric Willeke <eric.willeke@...> ... Not sure I understand the question :( Do you mean how do we describe Kanban? My KFC blog is pretty much a...
2008/11/4 Eric Willeke <eric.willeke@...> ... Ah - that makes more sense :) Thinking about it, I'm not sure we brought it out as explicitly as we could ...
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Alan This is a Kanban group. So simple question. Will you be covering Kanban as a lean process in favour of Scrum which IMO isn't as good. Chris ... -- Regards...
I'm looking for some guiance here on when to call a process Kanban and when not to. In a previous post I noted that I was helping a team implement a Kanban...
After attending a great Keynote presentation from David Anderson I became interested in Kanban and how with its usage teams that I work with who are using (and...
For me it is simple... Are you limiting work-in-progress? Are you signaling to pull work from an upstream process? If it is a WIP limited pull system, it is...
inline... ... [dja] i prefer to track and limit customer-valued work e.g. stories ... [dja] There was a whole long thread on this topic in this group. Both ...
2008/11/5 davidpeterjoyce <dpjoyce@...> ... My preference is Minimal Marketable Features (MMFs). These may be larger than Stories, which may not have...
David Can you recommend a book / article / etc. On the below, especially the coad method. Chris [dja] there are many good analysis and modeling techniques -...