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What Makes Project Attractive 27 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
Throughout years of my professional career I’ve heard all sorts of ideas what makes a project attractive for people working on it. A favorite technology. Greenfield work with no legacy code. Scalabili...
Limit Work in Progress Early 22 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
We’ve just started another project. One of things we’ve set up at the very beginning was a Kanban board. It wouldn’t be a real Kanban board if we haven’t had work in progress limits. There are two com...
No Estimates Middle Ground 24 Jul 2013 | 02:48 am
The idea of no estimates (or #NoEstimates) is all hot these days. People would choose different parties and fight a hell of fight just to prove their arguments are valid, they are right and the other ...
Cumulative Flow Diagram 16 Jul 2013 | 05:03 am
One of charts that give you a quick overview of what’s happening in a project or product work is Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). On one hand in CFD you can find typical information about status of work...
Kanban Landscape and Portfolio Kanban 11 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
One of reasons why Kanban Leadership Retreat (KLRAT) is such an awesome event is that it pushes our understanding of Kanban to a new level. No surprise that after the retreat there’s going to be much ...
All Sorts of Kanban 8 Jul 2013 | 01:36 am
Some of you who pay more attention to what is happening in the Lean Kanban community may have noticed that there’s an ongoing discussion about what Kanban is or should be. It’s not about what do we us...
Kanban Leadership Retreat: Portfolio Kanban 3 Jul 2013 | 11:32 pm
This year’s Kanban Leadership Retreat (KLRAT), as always, was awesome. In fact, despite sharing some critical feedback during retro session at the very end of the event, I still consider it the best e...
Manager-Free Organization 20 Jun 2013 | 02:28 am
One of frequently mentioned management ideas these days is that we don’t need management. If I got a free beer every time I’ve heard the examples of W.L. Gore, Valve or GitHub and how we should act as...
MVP Thinking 11 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
One of the most valuable goals achieved by Eric Ries’ Lean Startup is popularizing the term Minimal Viable Product (MVP). Of course the concept isn’t novel. We were using the Minimal Marketable Featur...
Hire the Best 16 May 2013 | 03:35 am
I took a part in a panel discussion at GeeCON about presence of women in IT industry. One of my arguments on why we should hire more women sprung an interesting comment: I can’t agree with ‘hire woman...