Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Recent Blogospehere Commentary

Israel Gat (Agile Executive) posted his thoughts on my Kanban & Retrospectives blog and made some comparisons with Scrum.

Israel Gat also posted his thoughts on Continuous Deployment (or Customer Driven Testing) following an interesting Twitter discussion mainly between James Shore and me. What’s interesting about this one is the consideration that even if the technical team is capable of continuous deployment it is undesirable if the end customer is incapable of absorbing such frequent releases or the economic cost to that customer is unacceptable.

And Dave Nicolette’s been in on the action too, explaining how Kanban is an Agile method. This post from Dave was prompted by my Kanban & Planning and Estimation post to which he posted a comment.

And Eric Willeke spotted this blog with lots of Kanban posts… WingingIT  Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban, Software+Engineering, Project+Management, Israel+Gat, Dave+Nicolette

Site Design Changes

I’ve made a few changes to the home page to make blog posts easier to find. Along with the existing Channel FDD, I’ve added Channel Kanban, Channel Lean and Channel CMMI. I’ve introduced two extra columns on the home page layout to accommodate these new navigation aids. I’ll be making more content management changes over the coming weeks to make the contents of the site and the wealth of material in 5 years of blog archive more accessible. A site redesign is also overdue. I’ll see if I can find time to fit that in also. Meanwhile, I hope today’s changes primarily make it easier to source all my writing on Kanban. If you believe that there is a Kanban article that isn’t tagged correctly and isn’t showing up on Channel Kanban, please drop me a note and let me know.