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Interview about Agile and Kanban at the Software Process and Measurement Cast

        I’ve been listening to Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement Cast for a while now, so was thrilled to have a chance to be a guest on the show. Tom and I discussed Agile, Kanban and some other topics. The interview has just been posted, I hope you will enjoy it! Please leave …

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Testing Flow LSSC11 Video available at the limitedwipsociety.org

If you didn’t have the chance to see me talk at LSSC11, you can check out the video over at the LimitedWipSociety WIKI. More videos are available to LSSC members – anyone interested in Lean/Kanban/Systems Thinking should seriously consider joining and checking those videos out!    

Patterns for getting to a lower WIP level in a system – The Freeze, No New Work, Limit Later, and some Mashups…

Some of us have the luxury of designing processes for greenfield systems meaning there is no history/legacy to deal with. Typically though, we are dealing with Brownfield/Legacy systems – This usually means there is some work in the system already, there are outstanding commitments, and some existing queues between steps in our processes. I’m working …

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Touching your electronic kanban board

Some of the teams I work with choose to have electronic kanban boards. Why? see for example 5 Reasons Why Electronic Boards Are Better Than Physical Boards a good new blog post from the guys over at Silver Stripe Blog. My main recommendation to those teams is to insist on having a big visible board, preferably in …

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Speaking in Lean Kanban Conferences in Europe Oct 2011

I was invited to speak in two Lean Kanban conferences taking place in Europe this fall. I’m very excited about both those conferences. The speakers list is still not closed, but is very interesting on both of them, and it will also be an opportunity to hear case studies from the local region and meet …

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