Kanban Experience Complete – Thank You LSSC10

So last week we wrapped up our final regression cycle prior to releasing so I decided to have a project retro with all team members (product owners included). What no one knew is that I took probable 20 pictures over the course of the last 4 months as memories. I put these memories into a [...]

Product Owner Kanban Board

This week we received our upstream whiteboard, also referred to as our Product Owner Kanban board. Here is a list of reasons why we decided to go with Product Owner Kanban board: Needed to provide development with a view of what was coming Needed to ensure that the Product Owner was completing certain activities before [...]

Paper Airplane Game

Today we did an exercise to see the benefits of setting Work In Progress Limits (WIP). The exercise is called The Airplane Factory Game. http://www.agileway.com.br/2009/11/16/the-airplane-factory-game/ Here were our takeaways: 1)      If a new request is added, it is easier to complete it if we have balance and WIP limits. 2)      Having everyone work as fast [...]

Kanban Board – Making Work Visible – Day 7

I continue to change things to make it feel better for the team and myself. This week I have added a few things to help: 1)      Bug avatars – I added bugs to cards that have open defects. So now you can look a card and visually see how many open defects there are. 2)      [...]

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 [...]