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 ...

Quick heads up on a great new tool for teams on the patterns and practices msdn site.  The Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit Feb 2008 release is now out.  This tool looks like that it might be a great addition to aid enterprise development groups in emphasizing coding standards.  Call me crazy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been following a thread on the Scrum development list on yahoo that included some comments about using MS Project to help track the project.  Some of the comments made the case that using MS Project was making a mountain out of a molehill.  I do believe it can be used, and this is how I currently use MS ...