Shelf-life ratio examples: which one better matches to your current work items?
Shelf-life ratio 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 distribution range to the lifecycle period. Our Triage Tables currently support 5 of the most common...
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 “proxy...
What is value acquisition lifecycle curve?
The Value-acquisition lifecycle (VAL) function (curve) 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
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 systems facilitate...
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...
How to Use the Dependency Management Poster?
Are you dealing with a whole network of services? Would you like to have more clarity on how to deal with requests within shared services? Learn how to manage your dependencies on different Kanban boards using our new free poster. Dependency Management Poster...
Tyranny of the Timebox Revisited
One of the more important, anti-Agile articles I´ve written is titled, The Tyranny of the Ever-decreasing Timebox (published in 2014, based on a speech I gave in 2009). Over the past 15 years, I have observed that managing dependencies has been a constant source of...
What is the relation between Little’s Law and Lead Time?
The Little’s Law: Average Lead time = Average WIP / Average Delivery Rate WIP (Work in Progress) – a number of items in the system overall or in certain stages (columns on the Kanban board). To use Little’s Law it is important to meet several requirements: items...