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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Belated link, but here's a great podcast from Hanselminutes with an interview with Lean Software folks, Mary and Tom P.  I find it hard to believe that Scott has not encountered these concepts before, but maybe he's just playing devils advocate in the interview?  Scott, were these concepts new to you?

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 ...

There is a new version 0.3 release of the Kanban template for TFS on codeplex.  This new release took a lot longer than I anticipated.  It does include some new process templates.  Also, 2 new reports are included (Cycle Time and Flow).  These should begin to help.  Also, I hope to test this with the Sticky Buddy project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...