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Guest Blog Post on Lean Blog

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:04 PM by elandes
A guest blog post I wrote introducing Kanban for Software development has just been posted on Mark Graban's Lean Blog . The article is a quick introduction for people familiar with lean concepts but not software development. I hope this is helpful 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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New article on Kanban

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:10 AM by elandes
Developer.com published one of my articles that is the first in short series on Kanban. This article uses a similar method to get the point across as The Goal by Dr . Eliyahu M. Goldratt and "Rolling Rocks Downhill" By Clarke Ching. This article 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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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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Moving MS Project 2007 global between environments

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 2:18 AM by elandes
Hey folks. A quick technical post for anyone starting to implement Project 2007 Server from 2003. Your enterprise global cannot be easily moved between environments. This mainly means any VBA that you may have as carryover from 2003. I'm assuming Read More...
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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...
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Project Managers and Testing

Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 2:05 PM by elandes
Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing . Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan. I would argue that if you are using an agile methodology testing is baked Read More...
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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...
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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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Experiences from the Agile Front, Finalizing the first release

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:08 AM by elandes
On the AgileProjectManagement mailing list on yahoo, someone asked a question about the end of releases for agile projects. I took this question as one asking how do we communicate to the customer that we are completed with this release. At my current Read More...
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Experiences from the Agile Front, Using a War Room

Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:35 AM by elandes
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted. I’ve been leading a full time agile project, and have not had a ton of time to post. I also went to central Florida over Christams, and hated to come back to the cold Midwest. While I can’t Read More...
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