Hey everybody. I finally got my own site up and running, and have moved my blog to here.   I have wanted to do my own thing, and finally got around to it.  Thanks to aspadvice for the many years of hosting.  To my large following (Ok, maybe just my parents!), if you want to follow corporatecoder uninterupted, use the ...

I am just back from speaking at the Lean and Kanban Conference in Miami, and it was fantastic.  The content was just amazing for anyone interested in increasing IT value to your organization, especially from the software development perspective. The event, organized by David Anderson and supported by Allan Shalloway from Netobjectives, ...

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 for those new to Agile/Lean software development.

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 April 16th.  If you are interested, check out the site for more ...

For anyone interested in using Lean/Kanban processes for software development , there is a new conference specifically for this in May.  The conference is focused on how different companies are using Lean approaches, and has a specific Kanban track, for software development.  There is also a more ...

If you haven't noticed, David Anderson has been making a case for Agile 2009 to have a breaking acts type of stage in the 2009 version, as they had in Agile 2008.  The case David makes is compelling to me.  If Agile is all about "Responding to change over following a plan", then Agile methods should be ...

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 expalin how a ficitonal software group adopted the kanban to help in ...

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, older lower ranked items can drop off as new items are added.  I ...

On the Real Options yahoo list, focusing on the infoQ article written by Chris Matts and Olav we've had a great discussion about this very question.  As I understand it, a fundamental concept is to leave decision making until the last responsible moment. Also the idea of your saying that options should have value, and ...

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 retrospectives.  There was talk about triggering it using ...