Day 3-5 Kanban Board

That last 3 days have been very productive. Here is what we have created: Created avatars for each person so it was easy to see what people are working on. (One small problem is that we have half of our scrum team in India, so I will have to tackle the problem soon) Created some [...]

Day 2 – Kanban Board

Today was not very productive. Had all kinds of other meetings plus a doctors appointment. I did however make some lines on the baord which already created plenty of dicussions. Both testing and development were excited about the board and willing to give it a try. They all agreed that our electronic board “hides” data [...]

Day 1 – Kanban Board

Here is our new white board where my Kanban board will go. I stopped at Office Depot and picked up all kinds of stickers and dots to help with making work visible. My thoughts on columns are: 1) Done – Not in Production 2) Testing 3) Ready for Testing 4) Development 5) Ready for Development [...]

Lean Software & Systems Consortium Conference

The Lean Software & Systems Consortium Conference has inspired me to start a blog about my road from Waterfall to Agile. On Monday I plan to create a Kanban board.    Here were my takeaways from the conference:  1. Make Work Visible – In my organization we have all of our worked stored in a web-based system. I [...]

What I do?

Welcome everyone, my name is Chad Holdorf and I am a Program Manager for a large machinery company . One of the challenges I continue to face everyday is that our processes are developed for hardware, not software. Hello, not the same thing! So my hope is to share my challenges and solutions I use each [...]