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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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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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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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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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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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