One of my favorite local spots is a sandwich shop called Which Wich. They have standard sandwich options like the meatball sub and BBQ chicken, but you can customize subs to your heart's content, with ...

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Kanban is an inventory scheduling system that allows companies to stock only needed components and arts in the production or distribution process. Lean manufacturing systems use the Kanban as a ...

This post is first in a series about Kanban and how to get the most benefit from it. We will start with what Kanban is and explore why people use it. We will then look at to get started with Kanban ...

In Japanese, a Kanban is a board or visualization of inventory. Workers can request new parts only when inventory is extremely low, which leads to just-in-time assembly. The Kanban “card” gives ...

JP Patil is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Digite, where he focuses on trying to understand how people work and how to help them get things done faster and with higher quality. There has been a ...

Kanban is a Japanese word, and the methodology it describes was conceived by Toyota for its production floor. Its origins are in manufacturing, but it has since been adopted in software development ...

If you've used Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), then you know it's designed to support any development methodology you want to follow. Want to do waterfall? Check. What to use an ...

When David Anderson published From Worst To Best In Nine Months, he thought he was writing a Microsoft case study about something called “Drum Buffer Rope.” Turns out that Anderson was also in the ...