How to work on culture so that agility initiatives do not fail? David Anderson comments on the result of the poll
When we asked people what they think is the main challenge of the agile initiatives in organizations, most respondents have chosen “failing to work on the culture”. It was an unexpected choice for us, so we decided to dig deeper into the topic and talk to an expert....
What is Kanban Maturity Model?
Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) is a process-level improvement model with the Kanban Method. KMM can be used to guide a process improvement across teams, departments, or entire organizations. It maps out 7 maturity levels and shows how to successfully deploy the Kanban...
Dependency Management example: Kanban implementation in an advertising agency
Explore how to manage dependencies in Kanban using an illustrative example of Kanban implementation in an advertising agency. Lots of professionals struggle with managing dependencies. We can schedule something and often it turns out that it takes longer than...
What is Dependency Management in Kanban?
Explore how Dependency Management works in Kanban and what approaches does the method use to facilitate this task. What is Dependency Management Projects in all professional services industries often require a cooperation of individuals or services with specialist...
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...