June 2009 - Posts
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It's been a week since I posted one of these summaries. I've been busy on other stuff and haven't had much time for blogging. Meanwhile, Kanban is generating on average 2 tweets per hour on Twitter and there has been some active new blogging...
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My younger daughter's pre-school uses a kanban system. I'd been staring at it for months without realizing it was a kanban system and after I did I was troubled by the fact that it wasn't a pull system. So I had to think about it a bit. First...
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For some time now (at least since May 24th) Alistair Cockburn has been expressing a dissenting view about Kanban and the value of imposing WIP limits. I'd like to quote a number of his tweets on the topic. These are quotes from May 24th to 28th. You...
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Jon Miller has started using his own personal kanban system. Read his adventures of the first day and note how kaizen events to make improvement kicked in almost immediately. Note also that he doesn't feel the need to create a WIP limit for his "delegated...
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My latest Perspectives article for Borland has been published. It's not the as advertised look at Agile Maturity and Adoption. Those two articles will come later. They seem to be bogged down in the editing process while I try to hit the moving target...
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In today's roundup, I'm covering some more general Lean stuff that is flying under the more specific flag of Kanban. It's amazing how people want to be associated with success. First off, who is this making Kanban t-shirts all of a sudden...
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Scrumban produces 2x productivity gain over Scrum Today we have an article describing a Scrum-Kanban hybrid & transition (Scrumban) from Charles Suscheck in Dr. Dobbs Journal, Experiences with Kanban . We've now had Kanban articles in both Dr...
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Today's roundup of all things Kanban includes a few articles from a month or two ago that I missed, but first I want to start with something brand new posted today. Mike Jones at About Agility blog, has been asking " What Can We Learn from Kanban...
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The London chapter of the Limited WIP Society will meet next at XTC on June 30th. Sign Up Here! [sadly, I won't be there. currently not scheduled in London until September.] Technorati tag: Agile, Lean, Kanban, Software+Engineering, Project+Management...
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My Lean compadre Hal Macomber , one the leading experts in Lean applied to construction project management and also a speaker at the forthcoming UK Lean Conference [sign up now to guarantee your place at the RSA in September] has beaten me to the punch...
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Incredibly creative piece of writing by Jon Miller of Gemba Panta Rei - The Amazing Adventures of Kanban . Be sure to read it all the way to the end. I doff my cap to Mr. Miller for getting this out today and including work that I published less than...
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I've been making some web assets for you to use on your own sites to link to the Limited WIP Society site. If you are an advocate of Lean and a practitioner of Kanban and you'd like to show your affinity or affiliation with the community then...
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It took 6 months for this to come to my attention. Perhaps because the author chose to call the article Finger Charts rather than using the term Cumulative Flow Chart. I love so much about this story. I love the example diagrams. I love the explanations...
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A number of people are playing up the angle that there is a religious war between Scrum and Kanban or between XP and Kanban. It's interesting that none of these people are actually folks from the Kanban community. I think one of the issues was Henrik...
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In today's Kanban blog roundup, we have this very nice Kanban process description from the Going Agile - Learning to be Lean blog. This is a very left-brained process description, very dry reading. However, its a very accurate facsimile of Kanban...
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Do you use LinkedIn? Are you interested in Lean & Kanban? If so join the new Lean Software & Systems Consortium LinkedIn group . This will be your way to stay in touch and influence the development of the Lean SSC as we develop it into a major...
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In a similar vein to the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference I am thinking of pulling together an Agile & CMMI event. I really feel that a small focused event is needed to kickstart the Agile CMMI community and energize potential adopters. After some...
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Recently, with the growth of blog and Twitter traffic about Kanban, there have been several people who've come forward with commentary to the effect that "we've been doing that all the time." Some have left comments on this site. Some...
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New material on Kanban just keeps flowing. I'm seeing Kanban trending in Twitter to between 5 and 10 tweets per hour. Meanwhile, over night Nicole Kohari posted her second blog about Kanban and how she believes it helps teams form shared mental models...
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In Part 1 of this article I talked about how the evidence from the feature sets of popular Agile project management tools makes it evident that first generation Agile methods did not provide any guidance on limiting WIP or implementing a pull system....
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So you are one of the many Kanbandwagon riders and your job is product owner prioritizing the feature list for your new Kanban management tool! Excellent! I commend your efforts. I love that there are so many new initiatives to create tooling for the...
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More Kanban chat on blogs today. Tomas Björkholm is one of Henrik Kniberg's colleagues at Crisp in Stockholm. He has his own take on Kanban in comparison to Scrum, on Agile Journal, What is best, Scrum or Kanban? and tries to choose what he prefers...
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There has been a lot of Kanban related blog traffic this past week. I'm sure this roundup isn't complete but these are the posts I've noticed from following #kanban on Twitter . Dennis Stevens replies to Boris Gloger's earlier blog reply...
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The proceeding book from the Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference in Miami are now available for purchase from Wordclay . Profits from this book will go towards funding the Lean Software & Systems Consortium . If you missed the event this is your chance...
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Looks like new sponstaneously affiliating groups are shooting up all over. Some of the folks who attended Lean & Kanban 2009 are behind Lean Software Austin . Another potential hub for the Limited WIP Society . ;-) Reading Scott Bellware's tweets...
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