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Tag Archives: kanban
Magnetic White-Board Kanban Card Options
Just some quick ideas for Kanban whiteboard magnetic card options from a question I answered on Reddit. Here is the best lean solution: Trying Out My Agile Kanban Board from Jon Miller. Why, well mainly I am kidding about it … Continue reading
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Avoiding Tragedy of the Commons for Software Development
Kanban and Tragedy of the Commons The “Tragedy of the Commons” archetype often manifests itself through “Shared Services”, when a small number of people with specific skills, work across different teams. Each team in isolation gets benefit from the Shared … Continue reading
Assigning Story Points to Bug Fixes
Agile software development has teams estimate the effort to deliver requests from the product owner. The estimates are done in points (in order to abstract away from hours – as estimates have plenty of variation in how long they will … Continue reading
Annual Management Blog Review: Software, Manufacturing and Leadership
In my contribution to the 3rd annual management blog roundup I will take a look at 3 blogs: Dennis Stevens, How to implement “Lean Thinking” in a Business and the Three Star Leadership Blog. This year 14 management bloggers contributed … Continue reading
No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development
“There is no true value of any characteristic, state, or condition that is defined in terms of measurement or observation.” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming. The value depends on your operational definition. Once you operationalize management ideas in a real … Continue reading
Kanban In Software Engineering
Kanban in Action [the broken link was removed]: The kanban system allows us to deliver on my 3 elements of my recipe for success: reduce work-in-progress (in fact it limits it completely); balance capacity against demand (as new CRs [change … Continue reading
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Single Piece Flow
Single Piece Flow [the broken link was removed] by Rich Weissman: The transition from batch and queue to lean manufacturing involves converting to single piece flow… In traditional manufacturing, specific operations were done in batches by departments that specialized in … Continue reading
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Leading Lean: Right Tool, Right Problem, Right Thinking
Leading Lean: Right Tool, Right Problem, Right Thinking [the broken link was removed] One look at the kanban card in light of lean thinking helps those using it understand how and why it works, because they see it and understand … Continue reading
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Types of Pull Systems
Pull Systems Must Fit Your Production Needs [the broken link was removed]: Mixed Supermarket and Sequential Pull System The supermarket and sequential pull systems may be used together in a mixed system, also known as a C-type pull system. A … Continue reading
