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November 2013

Standard Deviation

Let’s pretend that your data (it could be anything, but those who know Kanban might want to pretend it’s Lead Time) is: 13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21,13 The control chart that results from that data looks something like this:   So what are those two red lines?… Read More »Standard Deviation

Kanban Reports

This blog post is an update to the original post from November 2013 Don’t get me wrong, I prefer story points and velocity to masses of up-front analysis and estimation. But I feel that Kanban goes one step further and employs maths as a basis for its estimates. Unlike financial… Read More »Kanban Reports

Cynefin

Cynefin this. Cynefin that. Everywhere I turned, someone seemed to be referring to this thing called Cynefin. I didn’t even know how to pronounce it, let alone what it was. So last month, at Lean Kanban UK 2013, I decided to go along to Liz Keogh‘s session entitled ‘Cynefin in… Read More »Cynefin

Too much change

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The role of agile coach is a funny one: even when you’re doing a good job, you can’t put your finger on a deliverable and say “I did that”. This lack of externally visible, tangible deliverables sometimes makes coaches (and ScrumMasters) feel they need to have an outward show of… Read More »Too much change