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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:50 AM

What metrics should you track?

Jack Milunksy of Brightspark and AgileBuddy was reacting to a Agile Project Management forum topic on metrics. Jack was of the opinion that: the more one spends time tracking metrics, the less time there is for development While I have some sympathy for...
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Friday, June 12, 2009 3:12 PM

SPIN Kanban Talk

My talk at the Rose City SPIN last night went very well. We had a small core of dedicated people. Lots of good questions and we could dive into the specifics. Thanks to Rhea for doing a great job organizing the event. You can find my presentation here...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:11 PM

PADNUG Talk: Kanban presentation

My talk at PADNUG last night went very well. We had standing room only, with many new faces. Rich and Jason run a great meeting - thanks guys. There were a few requests to post my "slides" which I have done. Be sure to check out Prezi , the company who...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:23 AM

Agile Open NW 2009

Agile Open NW 2009 has been scheduled for Feb 10-11, 2009 at the Ambridge Event Center in Portland, OR . I'll be there again. If you are anywhere near Portland and have an interest in all things agile, this is a can't miss opportunity. Agile Open Northwest...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:57 AM

Speaking about Lean Software/Kanban at PADNUG on Mar 3, 2009

I'm be speaking at the March 2009 Portland Area .NET Users Group (PADNUG) meeting. I'll be covering a different project management approach to product line development that includes: Reduced meetings Clear priorities Minimal multitasking No estimating
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:08 PM

Evolution of a Kanban board

In No More Iterations I showed our 1 st attempt at a kanban board . Now that we have a little more experience I'd like to show you where we are now and where we stopped on the way. Here is where we started. Columns for backlog, blocked, in progress and...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:56 PM

Throughput vs. Velocity

Throughput and velocity are ways of measuring how fast a team can do work. Knowing how fast a team is going allows the team and their stakeholders to know when something is going to be done. What is Velocity Velocity ( http://www.extremeprogramming.org...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:28 AM

Corey Ladas explains Scrum-ban

Cory has a great post titled: Scrum-ban | Lean Software Engineering. In it he describes how a team can take advantage of kanban within a Scrum environment. While I am sure that there will be those who insist that Scrum doesn't need to be improved, there...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:42 AM

Agile Open Northwest 2008 - Mar. 18-19 in Seattle, WA

I attended AONW last year and had a fabulous time. It was great to reconnect with some of the local practitioners and have some really interesting conversations and be introduced to new idea. If you can make it I would highly recommend attending this...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 4:04 PM

Expedited Stories

I mentioned in my No More Iterations post that we didn't really know how support requests were going to affect the overall system. As is often the case I didn't have to wait long to find out. Within days of moving to the limited WIP approach we got a...
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