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Lean and Kanban Conference Post

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 1:43 AM by elandes
I am just back from speaking at the Lean and Kanban Conference in Miami, and it was fantastic. The content was just amazing for anyone interested in increasing IT value to your organization, especially from the software development perspective. The event, Read More...
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New Lean/Kanban Conference pricing.

Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 3:33 AM by elandes
For those interested in the Lean/Kanban conference, there are now some pricing breaks. A great low price before March 16th, and some interesting prices for those in Florida close to the conference. There is also a decent break for those registering before Read More...
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Lean Kanban Conference

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:13 AM by elandes
For anyone interested in using Lean/Kanban processes for software development , there is a new conference specifically for this in May. The conference is focused on how different companies are using Lean approaches, and has a specific Kanban track, for Read More...
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What to work on next 2.

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 2:57 AM by elandes
Right after I wrote about what to work on next, Cory Ladas wrote about the Perpetual Multivote . Cory mentions a voting system that keeps the highest priority at the top of the your list. Items in the list are time sensitvie, so at a predetermined level, Read More...
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Podcast with Mary and Tom Poppendieck from Hanselminutes

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:47 PM by elandes
Belated link, but here's a great podcast from Hanselminutes with an interview with Lean Software folks, Mary and Tom P. I find it hard to believe that Scott has not encountered these concepts before, but maybe he's just playing devils advocate Read More...
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Kanban Retrospectives

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:32 PM by elandes
Wow, it's been a while since I blogged. Summer is busy, busy, schockingly busy! I wanted to mention the discussion we had recently on the kaban mailing list. We talked about when a group using Kanban as their project management tool would conduct Read More...
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New Process template release on Kanban for TFS.

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 4:05 AM by elandes
There is a new version 0.3 release of the Kanban template for TFS on codeplex . This new release took a lot longer than I anticipated. It does include some new process templates. Also, 2 new reports are included (Cycle Time and Flow). These should begin Read More...
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Kanban Backlog (Parking Lot) limits.

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:03 PM by elandes
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 Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog Part III

Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:36 AM by elandes
It's been a while since I've posted, but we've finally decided how we plan to implement this new Kanban System for our change tickets. After talking it over we've decided to point our change tickets to show the level of effort. Then we Read More...
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More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:17 AM by elandes
As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been experimenting with using the I saw David Anderson mention Kanban System to test how this would work in our organization. As mentioned earlier the paper A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering explains Read More...
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