Dungeons and Databy jennifer davis

Production Engineering

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Character Sheet

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Abilities• Communication• Collaboration• Confidence

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Ability: Communication

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Kanban – Basic Principles• Start with what you do now.

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Kanban – Core properties• Visualization of workflow• Make process policies explicit.

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Explicit policies - Sample

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Reward..

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Kanban – Basic Principles• Respect current process, roles, responsibilities, and

titles.

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Ability: Collaboration

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NHCsNon-Hacking Contributors – “Crew Shirts”

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Kanban – Core properties• Manage Flow• Improve Collaboratively

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Skill: Confidence

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Kanban – Core properties• Limit WIP

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Kanban – Basic Principles• Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change.

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Work == Applied skills• Work requested via bugzilla• Work visualized on LeanKit

… no direct integration

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APIs !

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Objects• LeanKit

• Board• Card• User

• Bugzilla• Product• Bug• User

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Work Unitcard bugTitle short_short_descExternalCardID bug_idTypeId (Indirectly )reporterLaneId target_milestoneAssignedUserIds assigned_to

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TeamBoardId Bugzilla Product

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Problems• LeanKit: No direct User APIs• Feature disparity• Individual differences in “term definition”

• Example: project vs task

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Next Step: Character Sheet!

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Kanban• Basic Principles

• Start with what you do now.• Agree to pursue incremental change.• Respect current roles.

• Core Properties• Visualize workflow.• Limit WIP.• Manage Flow.• Make process policies explicit.• Improve Collaboratively.

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Summary• Engineering “Character Sheet” Abilities

• Communication• Collaboration• Confidence

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Thanks!

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@sigje

Acknowledgements• http://www.flickr.com/photos/levork • http://www.flickr.com/photos/puggles• http://www.flickr.com/photos/byteorder• http://www.flickr.com/photos/egoant• http://www.flickr.com/photos/happymonkey• Kyle Latino • Greg Connor

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