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How well does your workflow flow?

with Julia Wester A workflow is a process in which work flows through until it is completed โ€“ at least thatโ€™s what the name suggests. Based on my experience working with and talking to teams, workflows donโ€™t always facilitate flow.

Business Agility in Action: Using Flight Levels Boards

Klaus Leopold author of โ€œrethinking Agileโ€ describes Flight Levels as a “thinking model” that can help you discover and highlight where in an organization you need to focus on to achieve your desired objectives. Flight Levels is not an organisational model or a maturity model. It is essentially a tool to help you think and …

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What shall I work on next? Using ageing charts in your Daily Scrum

What shall I work on next? If you facilitate Daily Scrums (or whatever you call your daily meeting), this is never a straightforward question and it can be difficult helping guide teams to the right answer. As a team member, it is never as simple as picking the lowest hanging fruit or the most important …

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All your Story Points are Belong to us

Abstract In this engaging talk, Jose Casal revisits the purpose of producing estimates, challenges some common myths about our popular estimation techniques, considers how to assess if your estimation process is really working for you, and finally, introduces how (and why) flow metrics can produce better forecasting and estimation. Say bye to Velocity. Presentation History …

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Seeking Nirvana – Predictability in a Complex World

Abstract As Simon Wardley says: โ€œpredictability is a measure of how accurately we can anticipate somethingโ€ In life and in business, human beings struggle to deal with uncertainty. When we ask people why they engage in agile transformations, change programmes, digital initiatives, scaling projects, and things like that, they will often say that they want …

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Can Kanban and Scrum work together?

Students and clients ask us โ€œCan Kanban and Scrum work together?โ€ all the time. The answer is an emphatic, โ€œOf course!โ€ However, what do you mean by โ€œKanbanโ€? If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system, then …

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Aging WIP Chart from Actionable Agile

The Art of Queuing

During the Summer of 2017, I went to the famed land of theme parks and queuing that is Orlando. Of course, you can pay a little extra to avoid the waitโ€Šโ€”โ€Šwhich also impacts the size of the queues. You find times where even this doesnโ€™t help though or youโ€™ve used up your allowance for the …

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