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I'm writing from San Francisco after the first day of Agile Open
Northern California.<br>
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In case you aren't familiar with Agile - it is a revolutionary and
now quite popular software development philosophy that also comes
with a number of practices. Open Space Technology has quite a
history with the Agile movement, especially for some of the earliest
Agile conferences - up through today.<br>
<br>
Today I've seen one of the most effective methods ever for
encouraging prompt session reports. The approach is loaned from the
Japanese "Kanban" which just means visual card. Kanban is now being
used in software development to help track what's planned and what's
done with visual cards posted on a wall.<br>
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At Agile Open NorCal - once the sessions were completed, the paper
used to announce it was are removed from the agenda wall and moved
to another wall where there were two slots. The first is "not done",
or the sessions for which notes were not produced. Once notes were
completed, the session page would be moved to the "done" slot. I was
impressed how it seemed to speed up people finishing the notes -
just by having quick visibility about what sessions had completed
documentation, and which didn't.<br>
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Any thoughts about this? It seems quite easy to do.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
<a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a><br>
twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/hajush">@hajush</a></div>
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