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Abstract Ever wondered why sometimes you feel like you are getting a lot of work done, but still your customers and stakeholders aren’t happy? Why is it that, even if your team is awesomely agile, people still complain about how long it takes to get their stuff done? It feels like no matter how hard […]
Workflows, Roleflows & Waitflows Read More »
Are you getting ready to take a ProKanban certification exam? They are challenging exams, but fear not! In this blog post, we’ll walk you through some clear and straightforward steps to help you prepare and increase your chances of passing the exam with flying colours. So, let’s dive in! Step 1: Complete the Actineo Course
Ace your ProKanban PK I and PAM Certification Exams Read More »
Klaus Leopold author of “rethinking Agile” 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
Business Agility in Action: Using Flight Levels Boards Read More »
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
What shall I work on next? Using ageing charts in your Daily Scrum Read More »
Students and clients ask us “Can Kanban and Scrum work together?” all the time. The answer is an emphatic, “Of course!” However, what do you mean by “Kanban”? 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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In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what
Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player Read More »
When working with a flow-based Kanban system there are a few statements that I would suggest most teams should bear in mind. One of my Kanban class attendees labelled these as “Jose’s Rules for Flow” Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say these are hard and fast rules, they are some suggestions for
How Well Does Your System Flow? Read More »
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 wait — which also impacts the size of the queues. You find times where even this doesn’t help though or you’ve used up your allowance for the
The Art of Queuing Read More »
Practice! Practice! Practice! We know that the only way to really master new knowledge is by practising it for a substantial period of time. This is the most crucial statement in the Agile Manifesto: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. But, “doing” is not everything.
Mastering the Art of Practicing Kanban Read More »
In practically every training class and consultancy work we do in Actineo there are two ideas that someone will bring up at some point: Ticket size matters Tickets need to be of the same size To me, those are two myths. I tend to argue that “ticket size does NOT matter“, although what I really
Ticket Size Does Not Matter Read More »
