Corporate Coder

I wanted to write an update about our change management system.  Now that we have a kanaban system driving our change process we are ready to limit certain parts of our current Kanban.  See this post for my earlier thoughts on what we would do.  That post was speculation on what we should implement.  We just decided to place limits on our parking lot.  For our customers this may be painful, but I believe our reasons for imposing this will benefit the business.

First our applications can only have a certain number of change tickets in our change ticket backlog (or parking lot).  So application A can only submit 5 tickets into the Kanban.  Once all 5 have gone through the Kanban board to completion, then the Product owners of Application A can submit 5 more tickets.

Since our system is FIFO, this helps us solve the problem of having customers prioritize their changes.  I think these limits will help us highlight constraints, and I hope that frivolous changes will drop off an not ever reach us.  One of the things I think we all need to keep in mind is that we will always be tweaking this process.   The goal is to be hyperproductive!