August 2007 - Posts
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Since launching the kanban Yahoo! group last week its acquired members 80 members in only a few days. The idea seems to be catching on. Meanwhile, Kenji Hiranabe who attended my CWAC session at Agile 2007 has published a paper on kanban boards in software...
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Our next meeting will be Monday Sept 10, from 5:30pm - 7:30pm, at the normal location: Avanade Inc., 2211 Elliott Avenue, Seattle. Come with your topics for an evening of Open Space discussions. Hope to see you there. Please RSVP to dragosd at avanade...
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These pictures were taken today on 2nd Ave in Seattle outside the Corbis office. Pictured with me is Erik Arnold, my colleague and Senior Director for IT Services, a group which includes our project managers and process engineering team. Together we are...
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Last week's Agile 2007 conference was a particularly strong one for me professionally. I participated in a very good panel session on Wednesday as part of the Leadership Symposium where we discussed and debated concepts behind agile portfolio management...
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At Agile 2007 , I gave a CWAC (Conference within a Conference, aka Open Space) session to cover the history of kanban systems in software development including the Microsoft XIT experience and my experiences with Corbis . The session went so well that...
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A new interview with me appeared this week on PM Boulevard where I discuss agile project management. It's really interesting to compare and contrast my answers with those of Steve McConnel . Steve is best known for his book Code Complete and his firm...
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This week marks the 10th anniversary of what has become known as the Singapore Project. It's real name was Commercial Lending System (II) or CLSII. The two came from the fact that the 3 year old CLS project had just been cancelled without delivering...
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Recently, I've changed how I articulate my Recipe For Success . The third point is badly worded because capacity implies a volume and is often used to describe the amount of work-in-progress. This was never really what I intended. I always intended...
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A couple of new books, I'd like to bring to your attention, How: Why How we do Anything mean Everything... in Business (and in Life) by Dov Seidman. I'm half-way through this one already and its a great read. And Stephen Covey getting in on the...
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Like a fine wine, Clarke Ching seems to improve with age. Here is one of his most recent articles - he's been so prolific recently - where he retells a tale of facilitating the rebuilding of trust between a client software firm and their customer...
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Recently I've taken to walking a block from my office building to get my morning coffee at the 3rd Ave outlet of the Cherry Street Coffee House - actually the original Cherry Street branch is also just 1 block away in the other direction but I prefer...
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