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I'm unable to post these roundups everyday so they aren't always as timely as would be ideal. A couple of these blog posts appeared within two hours of me posting the last roundup on June 30th. Karl Scotland stirred up a lot of debate with his...
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In the past several blog-entries I've been focusing on the agile principle of self-organization, what it means, and what it implies for teams. So far, I've written about Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership , Self-Organization and Complexity...
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The previous blog-entry on self-organization was lots of jargon and technical mumbo jumbo that didn't say too much about what that means for teams of people. So let's shift from talking about self-organizing systems in complexity science to talking...
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In my previous blog-entry I talked a little about how self-organization is a key aspect of software agility . I'd like to explore exactly what self-organization is a bit more in this posting. Self-organization comes from complexity science and the...
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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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It is not uncommon for me to see on blog posts, newsgroups, or presentations the phrase or comment that something is not, "in the spirit of Agile". In fact a project team could be doing many of the practices of Agile but, if it fails, the agilist will claim that the project was not Agile in...
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Clear just closed down. Here’s how it worked while it was in business. You paid $200 for a one-year membership. You underwent a big, complicated background check to prove that you were extra-super-trustworthy. In exchange, in a few big airports, you got...
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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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I now have a public Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/n/?pages/Steve-McConnell/198720075270&mid=8a4602G316afb94G1ae8a37G4c . I plan to use this page for small scale blog entries, updates on what I'm reading, announcements, and so on.
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I'll be giving a free webinar tomorrow at 10:00 am Pacific time on the 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation. You can sign up here: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/webinars.aspx Here's the full announcement: The average project overruns its planned budget and schedule by 50%-80%. In practice,...
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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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Getting back to the agility cycle ... recall that I started with the business agility cycle and used that to derive the software agility cycle . There isn't a great deal of difference between the first two steps of the business-agility cycle and the...
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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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I'm sure I'm not the first person to think it, but I just came across the description of a newly published book whose title made me think about this subject. The book is: Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile...
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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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Interesting article in BusinessWeek from Jim Collins on the Dynamics of Team-Leadership Behavior . It's actually an excerpt from his latest book " How the Mighty Fall: and Why Some Companies Never Give In ." Anyway ... the Dynamics of Team...
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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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