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, at least some of those change tickets should never be done, they are ...

I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex.  The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban.  This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template.  There is now a score field, that has points based off the fibonacci ...

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 ...

I wanted to share some general accomplishments from our first quarter of using Kanban in terms of metrics.  Our cycle times have been slashed in half!  Our backlog is the lowest I've ever seen it at.  And we've been able to quickly identify blockages and fix those issues. I don't want you to think there's not room ...

It's time for a little feedback on where we are for our Kanban system for Change Manaement.  For explanations of how and why we are implementing this sytem, please look at the posts, Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog post.  , and the More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog.  First good thing ...

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 ...

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 the following.  The Kanban board (for us this shows WIP, ...

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 ...