Tag Archives: lean software development

Events, Lean/Kanban

Kanban Slides Posted

Here (finally) are the slides (as a PDF file) for the Intro to (Personal) Kanban speech that I gave at the OCDUG meeting on July 26th. Actually, the set of slides I posted just now has been embellished quite a bit from what I actually used during the presentation (which is why it took me a while to post them). If those embellishments spark any questions, feel free to post a comment here, or contact me directly.

If you enjoyed this speech, then you might also be interested in materials from other speeches that I’ve given in the past.  You can find them on the Downloads page.

Extreme Programming, Simplifying Business

Unfinished Projects = Costly Excess Inventory

Mary Poppendieck’s seminal work, Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, lists the 7 wastes of manufacturing and maps them to software development, among other things.  (In a recent webcast, Poppendieck added 3 more wastes to the list, and I’ll write about those in another post.)  Of the original seven wastes, the one that I found most enlightening is that unfinished projects lying about is the equivalent of having excess inventory on hand. Continue reading Unfinished Projects = Costly Excess Inventory →