Archive for category David Anderson

New kanban tools page

Check out the new Tools page in the Resources section of the Limited WIP Society site.  This includes established tools for lean and kanban and some tools still in development.

http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/resources/tools/

There is still room for more! If you want to develop a kanban tool, be sure to check out the Kanban Tool Product Manager Cheat Sheet

TPS = Agile?

Keith Swenson, a new subscriber to the “kanbandev” Yahoo group, explains some of the parallels he sees between the Toyota Production System and current ideas about Lean/Agile software development.

Whether Toyota’s manufacturing practices and concepts, such as “waste”, can be mapped usefully to software development is a regular topic of debate on the mailing list.

Make your own T-shirt

I’ve decided to make the vector graphic files for the limitedwipsociety.org t-shirts available so you can download them and take them to your own printing company and make your own shirts.

Any stock photography use to make these is licensed and paid for. My design contribution is available under a creative commons license. So you can use these designs with impunity but if you make derivative work you need to credit and acknowledge my contribution.

Get the .ai files as a .zip download now.

New T-Shirt & Supporter Button Design

This week at QCon in San Francisco I am launching a new Limited WIP Society supporter T-shirt design. The new design is also available as a button that you can place on your web site to show support for the adoption of Kanban.

If you want to use these assets on your site just paste the HTML code provided straight into your web source code or content management system.

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Go Lean Limit WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/GoLeanLimitWIPOrange.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Go Lean Limit WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Go Lean Limit WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/GoLeanLimitWIPGreen.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Vote Ltd WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Go Lean Limit WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/GoLeanLimitWIPBrown.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Vote Ltd WIP

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Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta

The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010.

Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org

The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to the exclusive speaker luncheon and a special limited edition Ltd WIP Society t-shirt, sponsored by David J. Anderson & Associates.

The Call for papers closes on December 14th.

Use the Twitter search tag #lssc10 to filter tweets about the event. Follow @lssc10 on Twitter for news from the organizing team.

If you are speaking or attending the conference you might like to tell people about it by adding these buttons to your web site design. If you want to use these assets on your site just paste the HTML code provided straight into your web source code or content management system.

Source: <a href=”http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/”><img alt=”Atlanta 2010 Attendee” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/lssc10/Atlanta2010Attendee.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Atlanta 2010 Attendee

Source: <a href=”http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/”><img alt=”Atlanta 2010 Speaker” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/lssc10/Atlanta2010Speaker.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Atlanta 2010 Speaker

Conference Chair: David J. Anderson

Track Chairs: Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, James Sutton, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle, Richard Turner & David Anderson

Event Planner: Kelly Wilson
Organizing Sponsor: Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
Event Team: Dennis Stevens, Janice Linden-Reed, Aaron Sanders, Eric Landes

Sponsorship opportunities email info@leanssc.org

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Get your Ltd WIP Society Merchandise

T-Shirts

We’ve made a series of t-shirts, tank tops, and other goodies like mugs, mouse mats and clocks available with the spiffy new Limited WIP Society logo and the “Yes We Kanban” motif.

LWS Store

Get your now from our LtdWIPSociety store at Cafe Press.

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Lean & Kanban 2009 Videos

An almost complete set of videos from Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference are now available via SEP (a sponsor of Lean Software & Systems 2010 Conference). Chris Shinkle, one of 2009 speakers is a development manager with SEP based in Indianapolis.

These videos were created by InfoQ. Unfortunately InfoQ were unable to use the footage as it didn’t match their required format. They very kindly donated the full content to the community and SEP stepped up and offered to host them.

If you didn’t manage to get to Miami for the inaugural Lean & Kanban conference then you can now watch all the presentations with the exception of Alan Shalloway’s key note from the Friday session. Watch now

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Jon Miller’s Amazing Adventures of Kanban

If you are interested in the history and application of kanban then Jon Miller over at Gemba Panta Rei blog has put together this highly amusing piece that includes the growth of kanban into the software engineering field. Be sure to read it all the way to the end. The Amazing Adventures of Kanban.

Supporter Buttons

I’ve been making some web assets for you to use on your own sites to show support for Limited WIP Society. If you are an advocate of Lean and a practitioner of Kanban and you’d like to show your affinity or affiliation with the community then please put one of these on your site and drive traffic to our Kanban community hub.

If you want to use these assets on your site just paste the HTML code provided straight into your web source code or content management system.

Yes We Kanban

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Yes We Kanban” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/yeswekanban.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Yes We Kanban

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Yes We Kanban” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/yeswekanbansm.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Vote Ltd WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Vote Ltd WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/voteltdwip.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Vote Ltd WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Vote Ltd WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/voteltdwipsm.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Advocate Ltd WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Advocate Ltd WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/ltdadvocate.png” border=”0″ /></a>

Advocate Ltd WIP

Source: <a href=”http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/”><img alt=”Advocate Ltd WIP” src=”http://www.agilemanagement.net/ltdwip/ltdadvocatesm.png” border=”0″ /></a>

More alternative assets to come soon. And yes, the face in the Yes We Kanban is Taiichi Ohno ;-)

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Kanban Tool Product Manager Cheat Sheet

There are quite a few vendors developing Kanban tools and we users can expect to have lots of choice of tooling by late autumn 2009. To make sure that these prospective tool vendors create a tool that will deliver true Kanban functionality, I thought I’d create a product backlog for them containing some of the non-obvious features that we will all need. It’s so easy to get caught in the notion that Kanban is just about colored cards on a board and as we know it is about a whole lot more than that.

  1. Flexibility in workflow design
  2. Flexibility in reporting
  3. Canned reports should include cumulative flow & cycle time spectral analysis and both should allow defined start and end dates and shouldn’t be tied to releases
  4. WIP Limits across steps in the workflow
  5. WIP Limit over-ride with audit trail
  6. Swim lane support
  7. Colored card support
  8. Decorate cards with icons
  9. Hierarchical work item / card support with two tiered display. Ideally, hierarchy should be deeper then 2 levels, to support existing processes such as FDD with hierarchical backlogs.
  10. Allow swim lanes to be assigned to hierarchical support, class of service or work item type
  11. Allow color to be assigned to class or service or work item type
  12. Allow icon decoration to be assigned to class of service or work item type
  13. Allow person cards to be stacked on work cards
  14. Support for target cycle time per class or service and status reporting on due date performance and likelihood of due date achievement – highlighting of time remaining or time expired
  15. Allocation of WIP limits across swiml anes and colors of cards i.e. allocation of WIP limits across classes of service and work item types
  16. WIP limits on two tiered hierarchies

Nice to have features

  1. Support for SPC charts on WIP, velocity and cycle time
  2. Animated replay
  3. Enforced class of service pull policies i.e. system should highlight which item should be pulled next
  4. Simulation – ability to predict which release a particular card will be delivered in
  5. Canned report for daily-delta, showing what changed since yesterday
  6. Ability to host multiple boards, representing different teams on different projects sharing product level goals i.e. a program rolling up together with some dependent integration
  7. On-screen policy definitions, configurable by project/initiative/value-stream describing rules and classes of service

Please comment and suggest other features I have overlooked.

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