toniBlog » pomodoro http://www.the-arm.com A weblog about Methodologies for Development Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:01:13 +0000 en hourly 1 Kanban with Pomodoro, it’s like spaghetti with sushi but it might work http://www.the-arm.com/2009/06/kanban-with-pomodoro-its-like-spaghetti-with-sushi-but-it-might-work/ http://www.the-arm.com/2009/06/kanban-with-pomodoro-its-like-spaghetti-with-sushi-but-it-might-work/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:05:12 +0000 toni http://www.the-arm.com/?p=450 I’ve read a couple of tweets today (demonstrating that Twitter perhaps sometimes makes sense)  and I’m aggregating them here:

Jason Yip twitted a link to this short, clever blog post from Matt Wynne defining kanban:

  • There are no iterations: only now. Work at a pace you can truly sustain.
  • Done means it is in the user’s hands. Nothing less.
  • Limit the Work in Progress. This forces you to get things done, or you’ll have nothing else to do.
  • Get better all the time. Keep tuning your process and tools to fit the way you need to work today – make kaizen a culture, not an event. Everyone is responsible.
  • Decide with data. Collect the data you need in time to make responsible decisions.

What scares me is the lack of iterations in the Kanban system, how can you keep the focus high on the team?

Just few minutes earlier Henrikk Niberg was twitting:

Ouch, Kanban + Pomodoro hurts. Tells you exactly how inefficient and behind schedule you are, and why. Pain leads to learning…

What’s scares me about the pomodoro is the too fined grained knowledge of what’s going on, with the big risk of introducing waste in the process… And its rigidity…

It seems that a lot of people around the world are now using those two techniques, anybody has some real experience of using them together in a project?

]]> http://www.the-arm.com/2009/06/kanban-with-pomodoro-its-like-spaghetti-with-sushi-but-it-might-work/feed/ 1 Micro Time Boxing as a Lean Tool? http://www.the-arm.com/2008/10/micro-time-boxing-as-a-lean-tool/ http://www.the-arm.com/2008/10/micro-time-boxing-as-a-lean-tool/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:41:55 +0000 toni http://www.the-arm.com/?p=294 I’ve started a month ago to draft a Mind Map about Time Boxing particularly related to Lean concepts with Staffan Nöteberg using Mind Meister, it has been fun, a sort of remote ping pong pair programming, pair thinking actually.

Now I’m very busy and far from Europe (I’m a trainer in the current ThoughtWorks University batch in India) and it’s getting more diffucult to follow this “project“.

I decided then to make this mind map public, putting the source online, any contribution, comment and question will be very much appreciated.

Micro Time Boxing Mind Map

Micro Time Boxing Mind Map

A full generated, browsable export page is here.

If you’re not familiar with micro time boxing, some links:

The Staffan page about pomodoro in 5 minutes.

The original Pomodoro paper by Francesco Cirillo

My slides, from a ThoughtWorks awayday.

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