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...
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 Dependency Management poster. Dependency Management...
Tyranny of the Timebox Revisited
One of the most 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). This article "The Tyranny of Timebox Revised" is it`s new updated and revised version. Over the...
What is the relation between Little’s Law and Lead Time?
The Little`s Law is widely known as a forecasting technique in Agile world. However, it has several requirements to use it properly. Let`s explore more about Little`s Law and how to use it correctly, so it guides you well in your forecasts. The Little’s Law: Average...
Why is it better to have a thin tail?
As we already explained in the previous article "Five Things You Need to Know about Lead Time", lead time probability function is a curve that shows the distribution of actual data for the lead time from a Kanban system. And it can be either "thin-tailed" or...
How to Read Lead Time Distribution
Having instrumentation data from your process doesn`t mean you now understand your lead time distribution. Let`s explore how to read a lead time histogram and use this data in the communication with your client. Step 1 – Building the Lead Time Histogram Let`s...