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...
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...
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...
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...