Hi Ged, ... Good question. If you look closely at the post war success of the Japanese one of the things that strikes me is the sense of unity and togetherness...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Feb 16, 2011 9:40 am
Hi Ged, ... +1 I totally agree. The problem though is building a culture of mutual trust and co-operation isn't something consultants can readily package and...
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marty.nelson
Feb 16, 2011 4:05 pm
... A problem for whom? Consultants? Organizations who think change can be bought? That's a very revealing statement....
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Feb 16, 2011 4:59 pm
Hi Marty, ... It was meant to be provocative. Good question. Perhaps both? To be fair to consultants (i'm one myself), it is very difficult to deal with a...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Feb 18, 2011 9:58 pm
Our Infrastructure Services department is struggling to meet the needs of their customers. These teams are responsible for managing servers, networks, web...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Feb 19, 2011 2:19 am
There is growing demand for Kanban in this area. In fact there is a Yahoo! group called Kanbanops which is focused on Kanban for DevOps and IT Operations. You...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Feb 20, 2011 12:48 am
I'm developing an article for a client. The topic is Lean Software Development. While thinking about it, I realized there isn't an agreed consensus on a...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Feb 20, 2011 1:20 am
Hello, David! Have you considered collaborating with the Poppendieck's on this? They wrote the books on Lean Software Development years ago. 8^) GB. ... ...
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SellersSmith
Feb 20, 2011 2:52 am
Gary, I used Kanban on my previous job managing a cloud engineering and operations team. Actually, I transitioned from Scrum to Kanban. Additionally, I...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Feb 20, 2011 4:27 am
Sellers, Would you mind getting in touch with Dominica Degrandis at my firm, dominica@... We're currently designing specific Kanban...
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Hillel Glazer
hillelglazer
Feb 20, 2011 4:39 am
I'm working with a client now to transition from BPUF to Kanban for DevOps... they're sending two people to LSSC. Cheers! -->> Hillel -- Hillel Glazer,...
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Kurt Häusler
kurt.haeusler
Feb 20, 2011 6:59 am
Yeah as soon as I saw the subject I thought, "I thought there was only 7, are there 3 new ones?". The list itself is great but calling it the list of...
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Alina Hsu
alina_hsu
Feb 20, 2011 3:22 pm
Hi David, I'm missing the customer here, so the team may be doing great work, but missing the point. For me, the concept of value stream in the context of...
5402
agilistapm
Feb 20, 2011 10:11 pm
Scott Dunn is offering his PAY IT FORWARD Certified ScrumMaster training course again. It is spread across two Saturdays and delivered as a give-back to the...
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pauloldfield1
Feb 21, 2011 8:06 am
(responding to David) Last week I was giving an intro to Lean to a group of our Software Developers. I chose to go with Larman and Vodde's "Lean Primer"...
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Peter Alfvin
palfvin
Feb 22, 2011 3:56 am
My feedback is: 1) I thought there was a fairly robust consensus on the principles of Lean Software Development as authored by the Poppendiecks and represented...
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Ged Byrne
gedb01
Feb 22, 2011 6:41 am
Pete, I wouldn't agree that the perspective of a researcher/academic can be considered equivalent to valuing the perspectives of the practitioners they ...
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bclancy84
Feb 22, 2011 1:51 pm
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Peter Stevens (calend...
peterstev
Feb 22, 2011 1:53 pm
... One thing really surprised me when reading David Anderson and the Poppendicks: They don't cite each other! It's like there are two schools of Lean: Lean...
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alshalloway
Feb 22, 2011 2:30 pm
Both Mary/Tom and David are pulling from much of the same work. They are each their own interpretation of how to best explain things. I don't see...
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alshalloway
Feb 22, 2011 3:36 pm
Pete: I don't think there is a consensus here as you suggest. The poppendieck's first work, as great as it is, didn't stress flow enough (expanded on in their...
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Alfonso Guerra
huperniketes
Feb 22, 2011 6:40 pm
On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:36 AM, alshalloway wrote: <snip> ... <snip> ... If you would, I'd like to hear more about these principles. Alfonso Guerra Apokalypse...
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Alan Shalloway
alshalloway
Feb 22, 2011 6:53 pm
I'll quickly mention 3 - there are more. First, delay in software is an order of magnitude worse than in manufacturing. In manufacturing the problems of...
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Alfonso Guerra
huperniketes
Feb 22, 2011 9:59 pm
On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Alan Shalloway wrote: <snip> ... Yes, you're right that this is a fundamental difference. Though I'd propose that it makes...
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Alan Shalloway
alshalloway
Feb 22, 2011 11:51 pm
Actually, used properly it makes discovery considerably different. I can build something and have the actually use it. Not imagine what it'd be like to use...
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cmheisel
Feb 24, 2011 3:02 am
I just watched James and Arlo's presentation on Single Piece Flow: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Single-Piece-Flow-Kanban I was wondering if anyone hear...
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Dean
deano84tiger
Feb 24, 2011 6:01 pm
You would look for delay or other things that obstruct flow. You won't start with single piece flow because you would certainly run into these obstacles. You...
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gregc
graycole
Feb 25, 2011 5:10 pm
Along the same lines, Arlo said they have done away with estimation as well. If the iteration is now MMF based (so not time boxed) and you have no CFD and...
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Eric Willeke
erwilleke
Feb 25, 2011 5:24 pm
The short answer is that you can apply many of the same predictive measures based on WIP and lead/cycle time at the MMF level as you can at the task level,...
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Tobias Hildenbrand
tobias_hilde...
Feb 26, 2011 3:14 pm
For large-scale software development, i.e. product groups with 1000+ developers,I would rather follow Don Reinertsen's definition of flow-based product...
