Hello everybody, In the next month I'll be in New York, and I would like to know where can I doing a course or workshop about lean? If anyone has a event...
Hi, We have just started a Lean group in NYC. http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC_Lean/ Our next meeting is on Thursday 22 October. John Goodsen will...
Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Agile Bazaar November 2009 Meeting . Crack that Whip- Introducing Kanban into an Organization Date : Thursday,...
Hi Phillip Thanks for your words. I agree with you that true kaizen elk occurs when the team gets involved. Unfortunately I am alone in the management team in...
Hi! In "Implementing Lean Software Development" (pages 230-233), Mary & Tom analyze Theroy of Constraints. ToC proposes that the critical constraint in an...
Hi! You see a project artefact and think: "Heck, that's almost art!" Perhaps you'd like to creatively express an idea or thought on Agile Software Development?...
Hi Agustin, What is your "rallying point"? Sharing my experience as part of the leadership team for two software companies.... We had to take off our...
As an organizer of a small Agile user group<http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/>and potentially a small Agile conference I’ve noticed that the Community lacks...
I have a small team running development in Scrums within a mostly Waterfall enterprise. The enterprise deploys quarterly releases, so requirements are...
We talk a lot about this in the Lean Portfolio Management chapter in our Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility book. Online for the...
There are several great references out there, and I'm sure you'll get other recommendations, but before starting our first mid-sized agile project (after years...
Cecille, On first read, it seems like there are many details that I would like to know more about before offering advice. I don't really expect answers to...
James - Thanks for your thoughtful response. I guess a little background would be helpful. My own small team of requirements analysts and developers...
Cecille, My understanding from what you have described is that you want to focus on one section (requirements) and leave the rest of the steps required to take...
Our new book, Leading Lean Software Development, is now available here <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321620704/poppendieckco-20> . Enjoy! Mary...
Congratulations! I have been munching on the rough cuts version and its a fine addition to what is becoming a great "poppendieck series", like the "Harry...
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We're an XP team (of 10 people) trying to go a bit more lean, and I don't know what to do with multiple work items in progress. With XP, the end of the...
A few options you might consider: 1. Branching strategy (yes I know you don't like this) - create a feature-branch that, on commit, gets merged back into a...
We use Subversion, for which branching is cheap. If you branch (or tag - it is effectively the same thing) at each complete build, say after each check-in to a...
Hi 2009/11/5 D. André Dhondt <d.andre.dhondt@...> ... Some thoughts... * Feature Branching - depends on your CM tool, and how well it deals with merging...
Hi André, I think you should also consider what others said, but... After one card is finished, are you talking about still having half-finished features (ie:...
... system" Our continuous integration system catches regressions, if any, so in general we're always adding value. The problem I have, though, is that we...
... We refactor mercilessly--often making renaming changes that hit a dozen classes here or there. Do you have CM tools that can handle these kinds of ...
... I see... I don´t know your specific enviroment and problems, but can you move the testing forward in the value chain? I mean, in your example, define the...
Hi all, I'm studying the possibility of going to the Lean Journey next year ( http://www.enna.com/japantrip/index_affiliate71.asp). I'd like to hear a little...
Igor, Bent Jensen of Denmark leads a study trip to Japan specifically aimed at people in software development. He is arranging the third annual trip the week...
... Andre, Can you think of ways to reduce that overhead? When I've used this strategy, I've generally found ways to minimize the places that require a...
Hi, I would agree to not creating branches as much as possible. In my experience usually leads to non value added activities. I think one factor to consider...
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