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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I last posted we are going ahead with our Kanban for Change tickets.  The visit with David Anderson (who wrote Agile Management for Software Engineering...) and Corey Ladas (His Blog is Lean Software Engineering)  really helped focus what we'd like to do at my place of work.  While have similarities, we do have some ...

OK, this is probably old news for a lot of you, but I found these templates for Scrum to use with Project server 2003, and thought I'd share.  I hadn't seen this from other sources so check out this link if you haven't tried it either.  I wonder if this will work with 2007?