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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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Guidance Automation Feb. Release

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:30 AM by elandes
Quick heads up on a great new tool for teams on the patterns and practices msdn site. The Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit Feb 2008 release is now out. This tool looks like that it might be a great addition to aid enterprise 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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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...
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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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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...
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Agile Project Management and MS Project

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:42 PM by elandes
I have been following a thread on the Scrum development list on yahoo that included some comments about using MS Project to help track the project. Some of the comments made the case that using MS Project was making a mountain out of a molehill. I do Read More...
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Scrum templates for Project Server 2003

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:46 PM by elandes
OK, this is probably old news for a lot of you, but I found these templates for Scrum to use with Project server 2003, and thought I'd share. I hadn't seen this from other sources so check out this link if you haven't tried it either. I wonder Read More...
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Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 2:57 PM by elandes
Jeff Atwood at Vertigo Software did some refactoring of the CI sample for TFS that Khushboo developed. The setup was real quick, and I had this version of the sample up and running in < 15 minutes. I hadn't read all the MSDN article on the original, Read More...
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Visual Source Safe to TFS Webcast archive.

Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:56 PM by elandes
This may be a bit of old news, but for folks looking to migrate VSS to TFS (as we are), I discovered a webcast covering this very topic. I stumbled across this after I downloaded David Andersons link to his webcasts on MSF CMMI . Those webcasts are informative Read More...
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MSF Agile Project Template

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:09 PM by elandes
It's been a while since I posted, and my last post was about the lack of an MSF Agile Project Template in the list of Templates available in Project 12. I'm also a little miffed that the Microsoft folks who put together the MSF Agile download didn't include Read More...
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Visual Studio Team System Presenation at MADNUG tonight!

Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:24 PM by elandes
If you happen to be near South Bend, IN tonight, don't forget to stop by the MADNUG meeting at Signal Learning. Paul Hacker from Notion Solutions is giving a talk on Architecting Solutions using Visual Studio Team System. For direction check out the map Read More...
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