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Uncategorized Digits, Extreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, Kanban, Scrum, Spiral, Team Software Process, Transitioning to Agile, Waterfall

Okay… time to wrap this thing up. If you missed any of the first three ‘Noodling on Kanban’ posts… I included links at the bottom of this one… just to make it easy on you guys ;-)There is clearly much more to this topic than I wanted to try and …

Uncategorized Aup, Boy Scout, Buffer Rope, Constraints, culture, David Anderson, Development Methodology, Drinks, Iterations, Kanban, Lunch, Mature Product, Noodling, Personal, Retrospect, Scotland, Scout Story, Scrum, Splitting Hairs, Sprint

Earlier today we noodled on the secret sauce… maybe even THE most important value add… of implementing a Kanban system. Kanban gives us a very visual way of identifying and elevating the constraints in our system. The ONLY way to really get a tea…

Uncategorized Backlog, Batch Size, Batch Sizes, Boundaries, Constraints, Cycle Time, Environments, Iteration, Iterations, Kanban, Kanban System, New Feature, Single User, Throughput, velocity, Wasteful Activity, Window Of Time

Okay… time for part two in my Noodling on Kanban mini-series.Yesterday we talked about the Kanban board and how it was similar, but not the same, as the Scrum task board. We also talked about work in process limits and how they can be used to explic…

Uncategorized Amount Of Time, Backlog, Bottlenecks, Constraint, Division Of Labor, Impediment, Kanban, Kanban System, Kanban Systems, Labor Constraints, Likelihood, Mini Series, Noodling, Notion, Scrum, Team Members, Work Moves

For the next few posts I want to explore some of my thoughts on Kanban. Like many in the community, I started thinking more about this during the Lean/Kanban Conference down in Miami. On the heels of that conference I did an exploratory post on some …

Uncategorized Bravado, Bridge, Conclusions, Confidence, David Anderson, Enterprise, Heels, Kanban, Ladas, Little Bit, Principle, Scotland, Scrum, Similarities And Differences, Small Victory, Stab, Tas

A video with Derick and the guys at LosTechies teaching the devlicio.us team about Kanban, live. [Learn more][1].

[1]: http://pablotv.lostechies.com/screencasts/dbailey/Adopting%20Kanban%201/Adopting%20Kanban%201.html

Uncategorized Derick, Kanban

It’s Sunday morning and I’m enjoying my first cup of coffee of the day… decided it was time to do the third installment of my “Interesting Post…” update. Every week I am amazed at the amount of great content out there just to be had for the taking…

Uncategorized Agile Alliance, Agile Business, Agile Project Management, Alistair, Alliance Board, Business Intelligence, Cobol, Cup Of Coffee, Informit, interesting post, Kanban, Management Project, Management Risk, Married To The Mob, Process Improvement, Project Charter, Project Initiation, Project Outcomes, Quote Of The Day, Scott Ambler, Unscheduled Time

A practical blog post listing possible real-life reasons to switch to Kanban tool (as opposed to being guided by wrong assumptions of Kanban usage). [Learn more][1].

[1]: http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2009/08/5-right-reasons-to-apply-kanban.html

Uncategorized Assumptions, Com Blog, Kanban, Tool

A warning against taking a tool (kanban in this case) as a remedy for management problems. 5 reasons you should NOT take into account when switching to Kanban. [Learn more][1].

[1]: http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2009/08/5-wrong-reasons-to-apply-kanban.html

Uncategorized Com Blog, Kanban, Management Problems, Remedy, Tool Case

We all want to be really good at what we do… we strive to get better… we want to think that we are making a contribution to the success of our organizations… we want to think that we are adding value. The hard reality… and one we NEED to reall…

Scrum Circle Of Influence, Design Documents, Impediments, Kanban, Lean, Product Delivery, Relentless Focus, Revolutionary Ideas, Scrum, Self Organization, Success, Time And Money, velocity, Wasting Money, Wasting Time, Working Software