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My soap box… no, really…
My coworkers really do love me. This was their Christmas present for me, complete with shiny bow. I was told to use it only for good, not for evil. And yes, that is me preaching from my soap box. :)
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Fri, Dec 19 2008 10:23 AM
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Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka - Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban
Let's assume that we are doing the appropriate amount of testing during our development process. If we include TDD, test automation, test engineers and customer acceptance testing, we should find the majority of the bugs in our system before they...
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Fri, Dec 19 2008 8:46 AM
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Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues - Pipelines for WIP and Done
In part 2 of my Kanban in Software Development series, I talked about completing a kanban board with queues, order points and limits. We saw how to take a complete development pipeline and work with a team, its processes and its bottlenecks. In the end...
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Mon, Dec 15 2008 12:07 PM
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Kanban in Software Development. Part 2: Completing the Kanban Board with Queues, Order Points and Limits
In Part 1 of Kanban in Software Development , I introduced the concepts of kanban boards and pipelines. I also showed a very simple example of creating a pipeline for our development process. However, there were some obvious limitations in what I showed...
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Mon, Dec 08 2008 2:06 PM
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Kanban in Software Development. Part 1: Introducing Kanban Boards and Pipelines
In the world of Scrum , XP and other forms of Agile software development , many teams use visual control systems to outline the various steps that software goes through during development. These boards are known by various names - Scrum boards, card-boards...
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Mon, Dec 08 2008 10:45 AM
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Professionalism And Thermodynamics
For the last month or so, I've been having a serious problem with the apparent lack of professionalism in the software development industry as a whole. There are many factors contributing to this and many different aspects of the problem. I'm...
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Thu, Dec 04 2008 8:53 AM
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