Xit beginning software#
I arrive at Corbis as the Senior Director for Software Engineering. The most notable of these was Eric Landes at Robert Bosch who copies it almost exactly for use with an intranet website maintenance team. Some people read and implement copies of the Microsoft XIT solution. At this point only Dragos Dumitriu and I had been involved. This is the first public presentation of kanban systems used in a knowledge work setting. I present the completed XIT story as a virtual kanban system implementation at the same Chicago conference, Don Reinertsen and I had presented the previous year. The XIT Sustaining Engineering study is presented at TOCICO in Barcelona and published as a white paper by Microsoft. I present it this way at another conference in Chicago the following year. I find kanban systems easier to explain to people than DBR and Dragos and I start referring to the XIT implementation as a virtual kanban system. I decide to revisit the XIT implementation as a kanban system and discover that little would change other than perhaps the WIP limits would be slightly different. Winter 2005ĭonald Reinertsen after watching me present my flow and FDD material at a conference in Chicago, follows me home to Seattle and visits me in the cafe of Building 25 on the Microsoft campus. The system implemented was inspired by Theory of Constraints Drum-Buffer-Rope and worked on the assumption that Test was the bottleneck. The engineering team was offshore in Hyderabad, India. The pull system was implemented on Microsoft Product Studio (a forerunner of Team Foundation Server). He “sells’ the idea to his bosses and his 4 product managers who act as his customers.
Xit beginning how to#
I design a pull system for Dragos’ group and coach him on how to introduce it. To put the record straight, I’ve compiled this definitive history… A History of Kanban for Creative Knowledge work October 2004ĭragos Dumitriu, manager XIT Sustaining Engineering at Microsoft, asks me to help him.
The individuals publishing these alternative versions of history are generally doing it for self-serving reasons or in some cases as deliberate misinformation to try and undermine my business. Success has many fathers! Recently, there has been some content published elsewhere on the web that seeks to re-write the history of the adaptation of kanban systems into the field of creative knowledge work.
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