http://leankitblog.com LeanKit: Essential Tools for Lean Processes and Visual Management Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:05:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since our 1.0 release in February, the LeanKit team has been working hard releasing multiple major and minor releases of functionality and system capabilities. With these new capabilities has come some neccesary and unneccesary overhead to the system. Coupled with the fact that our customers are mapping more and more ... http://leankitblog.com/2010/06/major-performance-upgrade/ Chris Hefley, CEO and co-founder of Bandit Software, sits down with Frode Ødegård from the Lean Software Institute to discuss Kanban for software development, different form factors for Kanban, using an electronic kanban system to create management insight, and many other interesting topics. The interview (mp3) The Lean Software Institute http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/lean-software-institute-interview-with-chris-hefley/ Customizable Card Types (screencast) You can now edit the default card types of feature, task, defect, and improvment, as well as add as many new ones as you like, and choose your own card colors. (more) Class of Service (screencast) Use Class of Service to manage risk based on cost of delay, support ... http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/new-features-screencast-roundup-may-2010/ Hat Tip Credit for inspiration for our new CSV import wizard goes to Vertical Response, our email-marketing service providers. We love their service, and their CSV import process was nothing short of inspiring. So we completely re-wrote ours from the ground up, to try and emulate what we liked about theirs. ... http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/new-and-improved-csv-import-wizard/ http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/new-features-organization-level-dashboard-activities-and-aggregate-cycle-time/ http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/new-feature-spc-charts/ http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/class-of-service/ http://leankitblog.com/2010/05/customizable-card-types/ In a blog post today on agilefocus.com, William Pietri outlines his approach to tracking experimental work through the value stream of a Lean Startup. Being a "Lean Startup" ourselves (though we don't really think of ourselves as a "startup"...but close enough), I found this line of thought intriguing. So, I ... http://leankitblog.com/2010/04/lean-startup-kanban-boards/ Over the weekend, we deployed some bug fixes and some little niceties we'd like to point out to our users. First of all, we fixed some bugs and some UI funky-ness that caused lane heights to be a little off at times. I think you'll see that they line up ... http://leankitblog.com/2010/02/whiteboard-skin-usability-improvements-and-board-viewers/