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 was speculation on what we should implement.  We just decided ...

Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value.  I had problems installing the version with source,  but it turns out that it was my directory structure.  I initially used My Documents to store the project and the documentation does mention that you might get this error.  Apparently my brain was thinking ...

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.  You may be the best but that doesn't mean your software practices are the ...

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 ...

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 displays during the standup, then ...

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.  ...