Correction on the threshold for creating kanban cards at Lonely Planet. They have a 30 minute (not 2 hour) threshold for creating kanban cards. Cards are...
Hi All, The 1st meet up of the Manchester Limited WIP Society will be on 20th July. Please see http://www.meetup.com/Limited-WIP-Society-Manchester/ for...
Hi All, There was an open session held at Seattle Lean Camp yesterday. Rough notes of the session have been uploaded to Google docs. http://t.co/powtgoR Check...
Hi, The next Manchester Limited WIP Society meet up is 1 week away! Come and join the Kanban & Systems Thinking Open Space being hosted by Laterooms.com Event...
Hi All, David Anderson and Mike Burrows are kicking off Agile Cambridge 2011 Sept 27-28 at Churchill College with a pre-Conference tutorial on Kanban. It's...
I've been thinking about the phenomenon of "pager hell" in IT operations: http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2011/08/thinking-about-patterns-to-escape-pager.html I'm...
Folks, This is a gentle reminder that my last Kanban Leadership Workshop in the United States in 2011 will be held in 2 weeks time in Washington DC - September...
Sorry for the short notice... I'm doing a global town hall meeting on Kanban at 10am Pacific time today - 1700 GMT. Register now... http://tinyurl.com/3d3u963 ...
Passionate about Devops? Do come and visit the one conference that started it all: Devopsdays Europe 2011 <http://devopsdays.org/events/2011-goteborg/> will be...
Hi All, I've come across many electronic systems for "managing"; ops teams - IBM Maximo, Infra, HP Service Manager, etc. They all follow a similar push model...
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Simon Lundström
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Sep 15, 2011 9:06 am
First of all, I apologize for replying to an old topic and for not properly replying in the right place in the thread (my first encounter with Yahoo! groups...
All- I am working with our Network Services team to get a handle on their workload and have proposed kanban as a possible solution. Is anyone using kanban in...
Get 'them' to run the meeting(s) as soon as you can so they have ownership of the work. We (managers) stepped into the audience during meetings and just...
Jim, We've worked with several operations teams to set up a Kanban System. I've found that the most important part is two-fold: 1) Setting up the input queue...
Hi Jim, Here's an overview of our Networks team Kanban system, please see photo below: Demand column: Used to visualise the various stakeholders and to get...
+1 Â From: mj.wivell <mjwivell@...> To: kanbanops@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:12 AM Subject: [kanbanops] Re: Kanban for Network...
Ian, that was a great writeup. Something we have been wrestling with on our ops teams' kanban board lately now that we are tracking metrics in a CFD is how to...
Hi Joe, As you've already mentioned we also try to break things down as far is practicable - but we're still left with large pieces of work. We use a relative...
We stayed away from sizing because we made a concentrated effort not to inject development time into the board's selection processing. We forced them to...
Robert, do you find that there is large variation in task sizes, and if so how do you account for that in your CFD (or other metrics/visualization processes) ?...
We do have different categories for the requests we get into the group. This helps in that regard. But other than that, the task size is not parsed out in...
A little commentary... Mattias Jansson is very approachable...he and I have spoke off and on for the last year about Kanban because of this article. Great guy!...
Hi Joe, Your focus on better data for better decision making is spot on. It's easier to make better decisions based off of relevant CFDs. Measuring cycle...
Wow! Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences. I'm sure I'll have lots of other questions as we begin using Kanban with the Network Services team. I...
We are starting this group out with a daily standup to talk about the day's priorities, because they can change quickly in the Network world. I am targeting a...
