I've been wanting to write this since giving a talk last week at the Indianapolis TFS user group.  Paul Hacker started this group and leads the sessions.  Props to Paul for having a great group of people.  Currently they meet after the Indy .Net Users group.  I thought it was a great interactive talk.  We'll see ...

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 Flexible Product Development.  I think point 2 on his list is in my mind the most ...

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 thought about using information radiators for your standards in the ...

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 can handle the amount of crowds that they do.  If ...

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 opportunity to ask some tough questions, especially for those ...

If you have not been looking at how David Anderson is utilizing a Kanban system at Corbis, read his articles on it here.  The paper A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering explains how they have implemented a pull system that utilizes lean and agile principles to assist in application mainatainence mode.  Davids group at Corbis ...

I wanted to follow up on my last entry.  One thing I didn't mention in my last post is how the TDD is accomplished.  I believe you can use both Unit Testing and Automated Customer Acceptance tests as in standard projects, in project with MOSS.  For Automated Customer Acceptance Tests, you could use something like Fitnesse.  ...