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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...
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More on moving from to Agile from mainstream Project Management

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:16 PM by elandes
If you need more info on how to move your Project Management organization from mainstream or waterfall project management methods, here is an article from Doug Dicarlo that might be interesting. Doug makes some points about the book Preston Smith wrote 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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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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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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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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Test Automation article with Excel

Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 9:20 PM by elandes
Here’s an article on how you can complement some of your testing methods using Excel directly for automated tests: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/TestRun/default.aspx After going through some training on using among other techniques, 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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