Walls coming Down

This last month we have taken down around 100 personal cubes and replaced them with team pods. 9 pods and counting. Here are some before and after pictures. Pretty cool.

Wave 1 of Agile Rollout Started

As I promised, I would start blogging about the Agile rollout I am leading within my organization and describe how things are going so that others can learn just as I have learned from many others that have gone through the same experience. The last two weeks was everything I thought it would have been. [...]

Marshmallow Challenge

Last week I played the Marshmallow Challenge with the Program Manager in my area. Each month we have a department meeting and I asked for 30 minutes to conduct the PM challenge. I did not tell anyone what the challenge was because I assume they would go and research to get a leg up. My [...]

Day 36 – Time to Start Regression Testing

Here is what our board looks like today. DONE!!! Now the painful part happens; regression testing. Since we have maybe 10% code coverage we have to complete 100’s of manual test cases prior to shipping in July. Each day a between tomorrow and July we will review what defects were found and make a decision [...]

Kanban Board – Day 11 – 15

This last week had its highlights and challenges. I’d thought I’d go ahead and share what those moments were. Here were the highlights: Documented what we thought our WIP’s were for each column. This is really tuff because more than half of our team is offsite. But I will figure out a way to fix [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]