- Schedule Portfolio Kanban As a project manager one of my current tasks is risk management, and I have to focus especially on schedule risk. Therefore I was looking for something that can show me quickly the current status of the project and this kind of risk. I started to use a portfolio Kanban board that covers the whole project, but my board is different from Pawel Brodzinski's resource oriented board:I'm using an old idea from Chris Matts - a work item is put into a column that tells us when the it is supposed to be ready -, and the idea of organisational level Kanban boards.
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- Risk Kanban Board A couple of days ago I was talking with a friend about the talk I gave last year during the Lean Kanban Europe tour and I realised that my unusual Kanban board may be able to solve my recent problem.
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- Fault Tree Analysis If you are looking for a great tool to conduct a root cause analysis (RCA), or find a problem during a retrospective, try out the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). It is used to identify causes of failures, weaknesses of a system, or the probability of a certain failure happening.
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- The Traditional Gemba Walk Has Low Value in Software Engineering I was at the dare13 conference last week where we were talking during a lean coffee session about the Gemba Walk and its value in software engineering. The Gemba Walk is a Lean practice where executives regularly visit the factory floor with a Lean teacher, sensei, or coach, and learn about the [flow][11] by observation, and look for improvement opportunities (reducing waste).
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- Convince Your Manager to Try out the Product Ask your boss or manager to try out the product you are working on. If she has already been doing it, you can stop reading now, and please go and tell her that I like what she is doing and she should keep it up. If the situation is the other way around then there is something important you have to do: convince her to try out and use the product you are working on.
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- See the Whole Flow - An Exercise for Managers to Start a Transition Last week, I got an interesting assignment from my boss.
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- Handling Additional Resources Firefighting happens usually during bug fixing and at the end of projects, when the project may or may not be as successful as people want it to be. In this particular post, I'm going to talk about the latter case. Usually, when the project is in trouble, management offers more (human) resources in order to finish the project in time and deliver the committed scope.
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