I'm a great believer in using visual planning and monitoring techniques. And I have good experience with card-and-board systems. Shuffling index cards around...
... For most of a year now, my team has actually been storing story-related data in three (!) separate places: * A card wall. * A bugzilla entry for each...
I've never found anything better than physical cards. That being said, my preference doesn't work well remotely. We try and do co-location of teams, but when...
For the team, working with cards is probably best. However, as a product champion, a tool is much better. We use Version One for our internal management...
Hi Allan, I think the thing that physical cards have over a computer system is that they are always on display, everyone in the team and beyond walks past them...
I think of tools as best used for release management. When a lot of complex, detailed stuff is going into a release, especially across multiple teams, it...
Mary & Tom Poppendieck will talk with us on May 9th in Charlotte, NC. Topic: Beyond Agile Software Development - Becoming Lean. Lean thinking has had a...
Hi everyone. I'm new to the group (having learned of it from the distinguished Ilja Preuss). I am helping a large Fortune 500 launch a new business unit....
... At the Deep Agile seminar he and I did, Jeff Sutherland told of being asked for a GANTT chart or such. He asked the execs in question how accurate those...
The execs at any aerospace firm, large highway construction firm, most federal agencies building hard goods projects (concrete, steel, or water), and all the...
I appreciate the thoughts from Jeff and Glen. Unfortunately, this project is not so simple. (My normal argument btw, is this type of project would normally...
I never did it myself, but heard of a way of transforming GANTT charts into something more meaningful by putting there not tasks, but requirements. This way a...
If it makes them feel more comfortable and it removes pressure from you then give them what they want but just find a low effort way of doing it. Make a gantt...
Hi Mark, ... Yours was quite a brief email, and so I may have the wrong end of the stick here. It seems to me that the above two paragraphs are somewhat ...
Isn't that what I'd do anyway? After all, a Gantt chart is simply tasks down the left and time on the horizontal. If we do agile, the tasks are all "implement...
Well, the first thing you have to understand about corporate executives is that they are a bit like two-year olds in their Daddy's car... what they want, even...
Hi, Jeff Sutherland will lead a Certified ScrumMaster course in Charlotte on July 11-12. Jeff is perhaps the most Lean of the people in the Scrum community....
(I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) Hi, We wish to invite you to the third Agile Open Europe conference, which will take place on 11...
Interesting you mention that Kevin. Ilja Preuss and I have had a long standing debate about what level of upfront work is appropriate. I am missing how this...
Hi Mark, ... Or if your future understanding of scope is different from that which you currently have? ... I'm sure I had the wrong end of the stick. It...
Hello Cathy I am new to the this message board and came across your posting for the Poppendieck's visit to NC on May 9th. I work in the Atlanta area and...
Hi Lynn, The Poppendiecks last week led a course and spoke to Agile-Carolinas, the practitioners group. I know that Agile-Atlanta had talked about them...
Hello Lynn and Cathy, We would love to come to Atlanta, and the next time we travel east, we will see if we can arrange it. Unfortunately, in the case of last...
Hi, "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra My hypothesis is that we don't...
Hey Mark, I'm a bit late with chipping in, too busy over the past weeks. The request for a 'view of the whole' is standard in large projects, everybody wants...
I'm struggling to understand what a Enterprise Architecture (EA) group might act like if they were trying to support Lean/Agile teams. What do EA standards...
... Like a butler. Ideally like Jeeves. Or a genie. Or a plumber. ... Unlike traditional hand-me-down rigidity, a more fluid here-is-what-you-can-use palette...
David, Great answer. As a community its time for us to move on and focus on the radiation of information rather than the information radiators themselves. Time...
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