I’m going to speak at two conferences this Summer: 5th June at xp2013 and 15th June at dare2013. At XP2013, I’m going to keep a workshop based on my how to narrow down what to test talk (old slides from accu2013 and video on infoq). At dare2013, I’m going to give the new but shorter version of my how to measure and manage flow talk (old slides from accu2013, video on vimeo). I’m going to ditch a large part of the talk and introduce a couple of new ideas.
See you there!
I guess I’m not really good at remembering birthdays because I’ve just realized - again - that the blog celebrated its third birthday two weeks ago. Happy birthday!
Thank you very much for coming back and reading my posts! I really appreciate it!
Have a look at that shape. Take your time, there is no need to hurry. Which side of that shape is in the front? Is it the one which top left corner is the as the top left corner of the shape? Or, is it the one, which bottom right corner is the same as the bottom right corner of the shape?
Did you move your head to see the shape from a different perspective so that you can see the different sides? Did it work? Do you have a more suitable answer now than a minute before? Most probably not, but here is an interesting idea: what if I tell you that the shape is not a cube.
You were thinking about a cube, weren’t you? But it can be a two dimensional shape with lines, triangles, rectangles and other shapes. I didn’t tell you that it was a cube.
An infinite queue is a column on the Kanban board somewhere between the Queue and Live columns, one that doesn’t have a WIP limit and into which one can put many work items as one wants. A column without a WIP limit sounds like a bad practice, because if there is no WIP limit what will ensure that the work items are moving - being pulled - forward? Nothing really, so having infinite queues may not be a good idea after all. However, there are situations when we need them, because they have an important purpose: they connect flows. It was said before that an infinite queue cuts the flow into two pieces, but I argue that it connects the two pieces rather than cuts them.