Hi all, My company is currently considering Mckinsey Lean ADM approach. I was only able to find a few whitepapers about Lean ADM and I dont know whether its...
Hi all, I just got hired by a small consulting firm that has a lot of Agile experience. As they want to expand their business, they've asked me to write up...
It sounds like you're doing customer development. There's a lot written about this in the Lean Startup community -- <LeanSSC@yahoogroups.com> -- also see Eric...
I would say your challenge is to sell your expertise, and the best way to do that is to demonstrate it. Build your online presence and marketing materials...
I wrote an article for the Agile Journal called "Becoming Lean- The Why, How and What." http://bit.ly/gHHrqV The salient point of the article is I present a...
I'm not sure you can sell knowledge. Or, rather, it's hard to get anyone to buy knowledge. What you can sell is opportunity. Opportunity that is more...
Folks, Just a reminder that if you'd like to present at the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Long Beach, California next May 4-6 then you have just one...
Kick off the new year with new skills and techniques you can offer your clients - learn to coach Kanban and lead evolutionary change initiatives in your...
There is a concern that some CEO's of software companies have that different teams might be re-developing code done by other teams. I have heard of a Product...
Rotate the team members, so they can spread the love. I believe in peer-to-peer, ground up consistency & reusability rather than top-down, process driven...
Agreed. Also, the open source community has a lot to teach enterprise teams here. As a developer I'm going to reuse something if it's easy to: (a) Figure out...
Hi Chakravarthy, It might be a good idea to explore why having someone touch someone else's code is considered a bad thing. Look for the question behind the...
Piling on what James said. An approach we've used is a code commons where there are only 1 or 2 people who are committers. Team members submitting stuff have...
First of all, I think the premise is flawed. People in different product teams may be solving similar problems in different ways. So what? The assumption is...
Traditional when I'm working with clients I use a combination of the task board and burndown (by story point not hours) to track progress within the Sprint....
Hey Mark, You need a valuestream workflow that you are trying to manage. If it's the classical Planned/Started/Finished (3 swimlanes) within a sprintI see on ...
Yes, good code is easier for anyone to maintain or reuse. And you can never seem to target reuse to a specific group, so aiming at everyone is right idea. ...
Mark, We use CFDs and track it through the lifetime of the "project". While we don't do sprints per se, we have monthly production deployments. Using Google...
John - the teams have already embraced doing development and QA in parallel (in fact I hugged the QA manager the other day when promoted that). As a result we...
... The interruptions come from other parts of the business and in the 2 weeks since they started working as Agile teams things are improving. Management in...
... Very well said. There is need to be very strategic and make the investment that truly has ROI. ... -- blog: http://eikonne.wordpress.com twitter:...
... Why do they thing this is a problem? IMHO efforts at code resuse are misplaced. Having teams "reuse" code is going to introduce a whole new set of ...
Folks, Just a reminder that I'm planning a Kanban Leadership & Coaching workshop for Los Angeles in January. This is likely to one of only two such workshops...
Brandon, I like the idea of an animation and it is a mystery to me that more tool vendors don't build features like these. David http://www.channelkanban.com/...
Update on this... We now have enough of the tentative people confirmed that we are confirming this workshop will go ahead. If you were considering coming...
For 2011 the Lean Software & Systems Consortium is holding an open call for nominations for the Brickell Key Award for outstanding achievement, leadership and...
I mostly work in Microsoft.NET. I notice teams which build their own custom frameworks whose main aim seems to be to reduce the span of control of the ...
I have just summarized my take on Product Owners at: http://poppendieck.blogspot.com/2010/12/product-owner-problem.html Mary Poppendieck Author of Lean...
Hi Mary - ... I haven't used Scrum much but I've always thought that it's ideal to remove as many layers as is possible between the end user and the ...
An interesting article but I have to disagree with the underlying premise. What you described isn't how most Scrum Trainers I know describe the Product Owner...
