Comments for Zsolt Fabók's Page http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog Practical ideas on kanban, lean, scrum, xp, java, programming... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Never Move Items Back on a Kanban Board by Zsolt http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2010/09/never-move-items-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1789 Zsolt Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:32:56 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=393#comment-1789 Hi George,<div><br></div><div>The parking lot handling depends on the project.</div><div><br></div><div>In the project, I was working on at the time when I wrote this post, the items in the parking lot didn't contribute to the WIP. They were blocked by something outside of the team's scope therefore the team couldn't do anything to solve the issues. We "cloned" those items to our managers board and she started work on those item (escalation, management etc). When they got "resolved" it was ok to exceed the actual WIP limit.</div><div><br></div><div>In an experiment project we tried to put the parking lot under the WIP limit, but the experiment failed: we had too many external dependencies which nobody could solve thanks to the organisational structure. However with a small flat organisational structure it can be part of it, because then, I think, it is achievable to find the right person to remove the impediment.</div><div><br></div><div>During a meetup we came up with an alternative to parking lots: <a href="http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/07/third-meetup" rel="nofollow">http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/07/third-meetup</a></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Zsolt</div> Hi George,
The parking lot handling depends on the project.
In the project, I was working on at the time when I wrote this post, the items in the parking lot didn’t contribute to the WIP. They were blocked by something outside of the team’s scope therefore the team couldn’t do anything to solve the issues. We “cloned” those items to our managers board and she started work on those item (escalation, management etc). When they got “resolved” it was ok to exceed the actual WIP limit.
In an experiment project we tried to put the parking lot under the WIP limit, but the experiment failed: we had too many external dependencies which nobody could solve thanks to the organisational structure. However with a small flat organisational structure it can be part of it, because then, I think, it is achievable to find the right person to remove the impediment.
During a meetup we came up with an alternative to parking lots: http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/07/third-meetup
HTH,
Zsolt
]]> Comment on Never Move Items Back on a Kanban Board by George http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2010/09/never-move-items-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 George Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:26:27 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=393#comment-1760 So when items are moved to the parking lot, do they no longer contribute to the WIP limit for their column?And when they're unblocked, and you move them out of parking, do you allow the WIP limit to be exceeded temporarily? So when items are moved to the parking lot, do they no longer contribute to the WIP limit for their column?And when they’re unblocked, and you move them out of parking, do you allow the WIP limit to be exceeded temporarily?

]]> Comment on A Step by Step BDD Demonstration with Some Useful Insights by Zsolt http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/12/bdd-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Zsolt Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:23:19 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=1755#comment-898 I glad you liked it ;-) I glad you liked it ;-)

]]> Comment on A Step by Step BDD Demonstration with Some Useful Insights by Olaf Lewitz http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/12/bdd-demonstration/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Olaf Lewitz Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:52:30 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=1755#comment-896 Zsolt,awesome post. Thank you!Like the rspec book a lot, and to have another working example will come in useful:-)take careOlaf Zsolt,awesome post. Thank you!Like the rspec book a lot, and to have another working example will come in useful:-)take careOlaf

]]> Comment on Introducing the Expectation Line in Scrum by Zsolt http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/11/expectation-line-in-scrum/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Zsolt Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:59:50 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=1643#comment-779 I couldn't agree more. I couldn’t agree more.

]]> Comment on Introducing the Expectation Line in Scrum by Filip http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/11/expectation-line-in-scrum/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Filip Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:46:30 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=1643#comment-776 It might be interesting to try to use a dinamic sprint lenght with the expectation line combined. It could work with a reasonable product owner if se is involved in the decision of the sprint lenght also, this way it might be easier to fit in big, or small user stories and loose less time. It might be interesting to try to use a dinamic sprint lenght with the expectation line combined. It could work with a reasonable product owner if se is involved in the decision of the sprint lenght also, this way it might be easier to fit in big, or small user stories and loose less time.

]]> Comment on Introducing the Expectation Line in Scrum by Zsolt http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/2011/11/expectation-line-in-scrum/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Zsolt Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:05:10 +0000 http://www.zsoltfabok.com/blog/?p=1643#comment-628 I agree. Scrum Masters should have more responsibilities than coaching and mentoring. I agree. Scrum Masters should have more responsibilities than coaching and mentoring.

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