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Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

beckfordp@... — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:05:23 GMT

Hi Derick, Did I say Hi Norbert? Sorry. P.

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Norbert Winklareth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:18:32 GMT

Hi Ron, On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Ron Jeffries ... You are right, you can go far with these general types of questions, and in some situations they are

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Alan Shalloway — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:21:36 GMT

I am not saying one is better than the other here. I am saying Scrum implies: * time boxing with a commitment at the start * velocity of a sprint (Kanban has a

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

beckfordp@... — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:12:32 GMT

Hi Norbet, Thanks for clarifying. The blurred line I speak of is the line between what is agile and what isn't. Lots of companies love the label Agile, but

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Norbert Winklareth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:12:06 GMT

Hi Paul: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, beckfordp@...< ... working. ... one ... Thank you for response. I have had similar experiences and the

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Ron Jeffries — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:46:50 GMT

... OK ... ... OK ... ... Well I'm not suggesting that one not /think/. But coaching would consist of a few simple things that experience readily equips us to

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Norbert Winklareth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:32:11 GMT

Hi Ron: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Ron ... I like to figure out things, reach my own conclusions about how to solve problems and so I was asking to try to

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Ron Jeffries — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:30:52 GMT

Hello, Alan. Not that you asked me ... ... I might recommend to a team trying to do Scrum that they try to make commitments. ... I might recommend to a

Re: Why Sprints are unnatural (in most cases) Re: A couple of questi

Christophe Louvion — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:22:02 GMT

" Without time-boxes we still have plenty of opportunities for inspect and adapt. " There are actually more opportunities to inspect and adapt w/o time boxes:

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Derick Bailey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:57 GMT

Paul, On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM, ... i think this comes down to what we mean by "stabilize"... i think if we find a shared understanding of this, the

Re: A Deming Approach was: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Derick Bailey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:53 GMT

David, I think organizational focus and shared values are at the center of this. If an organization is not all focused on the same goal, with the same values,

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Derick Bailey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:28 GMT

Hey Paul, I'm not sure where the disagreement is coming from. I agree with what you are saying, and don't see the conflict between what you've said and what I

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

Ron Jeffries — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:07:43 GMT

... Why do you need to know that? Why not just ask the people who have to live in it to fix it? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog You

Re: A couple of questions and some thoughts

beckfordp@... — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:08:21 GMT

Hi Norbert, I apologise for my lack of precision :) If something isn't working, you don't always need to "stablise" then measure to know that it isn't working.

Re: A Deming Approach was: A couple of questions and some thoughts

David J Anderson — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:54:03 GMT

So Rick, what is it about Kanban that appears to raise the social capital in organizations?... Transparency on both the work and the process/workflow but it