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...
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 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 available and...
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. You are 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...
Five Things You Need to Know about Lead Time
What is lead time and what does it tell you about? How do you calculate it and how can you use it? – Take a look at the answers to the most common questions people experience while learning about lead time with easy, clear and catchy examples. 1. What’s the difference...
How to Read Lead Time Distribution
Having instrumentation data from your process doesn`t mean you now understand your lead time. 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 start with...
Why is it better to have a thin tail?
A fat, long tail affects your planning because the simple forecasting equations (such as Little’s Law and the use of regression to the mean) can`t be used with a fat-tailed curve because these equations use the mean value (the arithmetic average), and the concept of...