Welcome to AspAdvice Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Lean Software Development   (RSS)

Update on Parking Lot

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 2:58 AM by elandes
It's been a while. I wanted to give some more insight on how we are proceeding putting constraints in our parking lot. For some change management processes, your customers might be able to submit as many change tickets as they want. In most scenarios, Read More...
0 Comments

Kanban Process Template for TFS

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:40 PM by elandes
I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex. The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban. This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template. Read More...
1 Comments

More on the Web Service Factory 2008

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:56 AM by elandes
Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value. I had problems installing the version with source, but it turns out that it was my directory structure. I initially used My Documents to store the project and the documentation does mention Read More...
0 Comments

Lean Thinking in Software Engineering

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:47 AM by elandes
Interesting post over on the Lean Software Engineering blog, " There are no a priori best practices ". In a couple of sentences Corey lays out what I think being Lean is about. What I get out of the 2 sentences are that you must ALWAYS improve. Read More...
0 Comments

Some Surprising Results from Utilizing Kanban

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 3:49 AM by elandes
I wanted to share some general accomplishments from our first quarter of using Kanban in terms of metrics. Our cycle times have been slashed in half! Our backlog is the lowest I've ever seen it at. And we've been able to quickly identify blockages Read More...
1 Comments

Thoughts on Constraining or Limiting your backlog (Kanban Stuff!)

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:14 AM by elandes
It's time for a little feedback on where we are for our Kanban system for Change Manaement. For explanations of how and why we are implementing this sytem, please look at the posts, Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog post. , and the Read More...
2 Comments

Documenting Work Standards

Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:14 AM by elandes
Corey Ladas has a post about document work standards . This got me to thinking, how in our kanban we might document our work standards. Our issue is that we are going all electronic. We will have an overhead display to flash the kanban boards. I had never Read More...
1 Comments

Effective Metrics for your Change Management or Sustaining Engineering efforts

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:40 PM by elandes
Now that we've been implementing our Kanban for over 1 month, we've got our metrics a little settled. The system has proven it can bring down our backlog. With focused effort you can see improvements. The metrics that I believe are important include Read More...
0 Comments

Making Kanban meetings more effective.

Posted Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:19 PM by elandes
I took a vacation down to my favortie city, Orlando! Actually Lake Buena Vista FL, home of Walt Disney World! So of course the week of Thanksgiving, I wasn't Kanbanning, but visiting the parks at WDW. I'm always impressed with how the Disney company Read More...
1 Comments

Our first Standup for Kanban

Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:39 AM by elandes
I wanted to relate how the first standup we did for our Kanban was, and tell what worked and what didn't. First as I mentioned in my previous post we are displaying our Kanban status board electronically. This we need to work on. Right now it only Read More...
0 Comments

Ask Mary Poppendieck questions on Lean!

Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:29 AM by elandes
If you have followed the Agile software development, you most likely have come across Mary and Tom Poppendieck's work like Lean Software Development This might interest you. Schumla is hosting a second Q and A with Mary Poppendieck . This is a great Read More...
0 Comments

Even More Kanban observations (Part IV)

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 6:13 PM by elandes
As I last posted we are going ahead with our Kanban for Change tickets. The visit with David Anderson (who wrote Agile Management for Software Engineering... ) and Corey Ladas (His Blog is Lean Software Engineering ) really helped focus what we'd Read More...
0 Comments

Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 2:40 AM by elandes
If you have not been looking at how David Anderson is utilizing a Kanban system at Corbis, read his articles on it here . The paper A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering explains how they have implemented a pull system that utilizes lean and agile Read More...
2 Comments