Cycle time vs Lead time – what is the difference?
These two concepts are popular in Kanban and are known in other agile methods. Let`s find out about their difference in Kanban. (Local) Cycle time of a ticket – is how much time a work item spends in a specific activity or a defined sequence of activities. In other...
Interview with David Anderson, Part 2: Dependency Management: finding a simple solution to deal with complicated dependencies.
We talked with David about Dependency Management in Kanban: what challenges people and companies are facing and what solutions Kanban Method offers for this case. We explored the idea of Dynamic Reservation System, Classes or Booking, where they originate from and how...
Interview with David Anderson, Part 1: Triage Tables: developing the tool for prioritizing a workflow in a WIP limit environment. The story behind the scenes.
Triage Tables were brought to light, as a solution, during the lock-down in July, 2020 from David Anderson’s office in Bilbao, Spain. Triage Tables can be called a breakthrough in the Agile world. They are the only known tool, with a solid mathematical foundation, to...
Shelf-life ratio examples: which one better matches to your current work items?
Shelf-life ratio is one of the main concepts that Triage Tables use to identify the class of service for the work items. It reflects a ratio between how long it takes to deliver vs. how long you will receive a benefit. In other words, it is the ratio of the lead time...
Better Prioritization – Sequencing & Classes of Service Explained
We don´t perform a specific activity to prioritize work for kanban systems. Instead we practice dynamic prioritization, selecting items of work on-the-spot, based on risk, or other desirable outcomes such as fairness, good customer service, or value. The term...
Banish “Priority” and “Prioritization”
Eliminating proxy variables empowers team members to make dynamic, good-quality risk decisions. You might have noticed that we have purged the use of the words “priority” and “prioritization.” “Priority” is something that Don Reinertsen would refer to as a...
What is value acquisition lifecycle curve?
The Value-acquisition lifecycle (VAL) curve (function ) shows the rate of value acquired over time. The area under the curve is the total value acquired. The length on the x-axis is the lifecycle – the period of the time while the product or service or feature is...
Five reasons to collect your data
A well-known truth is that facts speak louder than words. Collecting the data of your Kanban system opens you a totally new world full of wisdom, bright insights, and enormous opportunities. Are you using a Kanban system, but you don`t feel like bothering your team...
Scheduling work in Kanban with Dynamic Reservation Systems
Scheduling work with Reservation systems have been observed in Kanban implementations since 2008. They are used immediately upstream of a delivery kanban system, to indicate the desired start date of the request for work (a work item). 2-phase commitment Reservation...
Seven Lessons About Dependency Management
What are the lessons we can learn from my recent article, The Tyranny of the Timebox Revisited, and the release of our infographics for Triage Tables and Dependency Management? Why is it that organizations using Agile methods such as Scrum and SAFe struggle with and...