What is the essence of Lean thinking? Usually people might think of terms such as Kanban, pull, waste reduction, queue management, and other lean tools. Recently I read the article “Lean Primer” (authored by Crag Larman and Bas Vodde). The authors made it clear that this is a profound miss-understanding of Lean. They note: ” […]
Wei Zhu (Hangzhou, China)

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Enhancing Communication among Distributed Teams by Using Jira (GreenHopper)
One of the Agile principles is:
“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”
Yes, I agree. However, face-to-face communication is unfortunately often a luxury for most multi-shore projects because of the time-zone and location difference. In my recent projects, we found Jira (with GreenHopper) is useful