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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:58 AM

The relationship between Agile and Lean – one man’s perspective

This is a copy of a post I wrote to leanagile on 6 Oct, 2009. I have copied it here because I feel that it explains my perspective well. One of the things that has caused me to embrace both Agile and Lean is that they are not closed systems. Each of them
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:13 AM

Shu Ha Ri for Kanban systems

Context A recent discussion on the kanbandev list interested me because it really brought a focus on what we mean when we say “kanban”. First, David Anderson posted: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, netherby_uk wrote: (#1) kanban (small k) - meaning signal
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 7:12 PM

Incredibly generic procress description

Excerpted from the first draft of my experience report for leankanbanconference.com: Somebody has an idea to add value. Somebody approves the idea has merit, requests that it be built. Somebody transforms the idea into a set of specific changes that need
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:53 AM

Continuous Integration - When and why?

Earlier today, on Twitter Me: Having issues with the positioning of continuous integration vs branching models lately. Absence of latent code pattern description, mostly. Scott: What are the issues? Me: Mostly around cross-team/large product situations
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:39 AM

Announcing Lean & Kanban 2009 Miami

(Rescheduled to) May 6th-8th http://www.leankanbanconference.com/ I'll be speaking, as will many of the leading thinkers in the Lean and Kanban software movement. Definitely worth a look at the site, and I really hope to see many of you there! The announcement
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:18 PM

Design Stories - A bridge between roles

This idea has been forming among our architecture group this week and I think it has enough potential to open up for public discussion. I'm hoping to get some good criticism and references to prior art I can draw on. Overview: Traditional stories provide
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:54 PM

Learning from Fast Food

Chipotle has the fastest service of any fast food vendor I go to. Rush hour, takes five minutes max. Go in when they're nearly empty and I can be out in under a minute. Feels faster than the best McDonald's times, even if it's not really. Why is this?
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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:56 AM

Higher Education and Software Development: Following parallel paths

I’m typing this in the car on my way to Ohio to see the in-laws because I just finished having an incredibly compelling discussion with my wife. My wife is an educator and has a masters of education specialized in adult online learning with a minor in
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:45 PM

Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked

First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:33 AM

Today, I played designer

It was rather nice. For a few minutes earlier today, I was able to experience the designer's perspective of Blend. We had a bug filed on one of our common controls' visual appearance, and a designer and a developer were pairing on cleaning it up. They
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:22 PM

More thoughts on overtime

Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:56 AM

Mr. Sowell goes to software.

There is no need to attempt to determine the net effect of cities on costs in general. First of all, there is no such thing as costs in general. There are particular costs that matter differently to particular individuals and enterprises, and those individuals
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:11 PM

Back from Agile2008!

Wow, so much I probably should talk about, but I don't even know where to start. Massive amounts of networking, information, realization, and even contribution going on, and I can't unravel it at all right now. I think there's a lot of potential for transforming
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Friday, July 25, 2008 9:39 AM

30 days later

Wow - it's been over thirty days since my last post. What's changed since then? First, we've put http://inkubook.com into production. I'm very proud of the work I've done and that my team has done on this one. We killed ourselves getting it done, but
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Friday, June 20, 2008 1:37 PM

And a subtle shift scrumward

Our team has decided to take a step back towards scrum and away from our previous semi-Kanban approach. I think that it's a good plan at this time, although I also suspect that many of the benefits of our earlier approach will continue to show through.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:29 PM

Thoughts on Batch Size

The concepts surrounding batch size have been floating around my head again in recent days. My current assignment is a rather large batch of work with Silverlight 2.0, but it's one that I've been able to subdivide into a number of small batches that rapidly
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15 PM

The first time

Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:32 AM

Sanity check: is your process doing what it needs to?

I rarely repost, but this single, fairly short article seems to hit many of the high points in a very condensed format. If I were in a southern church hearing this read i would expect a constant stream of "Amen" echoing around me. Read it. Think about
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:31 AM

Test Driven Book Reading

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/02/19/5-keys-to-improving-your-reading-speed.aspx I like it - I use a lot of these techniques when I'm reading technical books for specifics... less so when I'm looking for an overall introduction to a new technology,
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:22 AM

Kanban: Critical realization

Read this today, and it's something that I've known for a long time, but have never really articulated. Kanban smooths out the aggregate, but the individual work request may still vary widely. -- Corey Ladas, here . The entire thread (2 posts currently)
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:34 AM

Agile vs. lean - My fourteen cents

(Metaphor: groups of explorers seeking a fabled place) Agile and Lean are indeed different. They are two different paths taken by different groups in an effort to arrive at the same place. We do not yet know what that place is, nor what it will look like
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:45 AM

In my inbox...

Subject: "Today's scrums will be held in front of the kanban board." Yes, it was followed with: " That’s the one with all of the post-its. " But, this is a huge step towards better flow, which has been an issue for months.
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Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM

TFS Sql script - list policy overrides

I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:30 AM

Go me (again!)

Well, Bernardo got a new job, I got a new role. I've been officially promoted to Software Architect here at Authorhouse, effective immediately. This role change led me to think more about what the role of architect really means, and I've come to really
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:41 PM

Policy Override Queries

Run them directly against the TfsVersionControl database, I don't see this data in the cube anywhere. Don't forget in SSMS you can copy from the output grid directly into excel with no problems. ' Summary : select id.DisplayName as Account, COUNT( id.DisplayName
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