The ChaMP system demonstrates how a Kanaban board has been used for Sustained Engineering in an internal IT development group. This session is a case study in how the CI-AFR2 software group got started with David Anderson’s work with XIT and Corbis, and Corey Ladas work at Corbis. The group …
The talk will focus on the demonstration of tools and techniques that we used to create our pull-system and to optimize all the value chain, including services and support operations. In this session participants will also know about: what we are doing to organize scope (what) and priorities (why) in …
An introduction to the three lean concepts of Kanban, Flow and Cadence, which combine to generate a more pipeline-based approach to software development, as opposed to the typical timebox-based approaches used by more traditional Agile methods. The presentation is split into 3 sections: 1 Kanban – This section will cover …
Lean principles can be applied to projects other than software development. IT organizations typically need to deploy a variety of commercial software systems, such as HR and Accounting systems, portals, and line-of-business packages. I will (1) present a case study of the selection of an HR system for a small …
During the past several years, we’ve each probably been building own path of learning with regard to Lean. Maybe we started with the Agile Manifesto, moved into the Poppendiecks’ books, and then spread out from there. We may have concentrated on Womack and Jones 5 Principles in “Lean Thinking”; or …
The popularity of the Scrum method of Agile project management is largely due to its ease of adoption. In Lean terms, Scrum organizes product development resources into workcells and imposes constraints on batch transfers of work requests, while leaving other concerns to complementary methods. The Scrumban method builds on these …