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 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 ...

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 ...