The prize for the most popular retrospective of 2013 goes to … my retro in a pub where we played Jenga. Thanks to my Marmite Voting system, I am able to confirm that the most popular retrospective by far was the one where we held the retro in the local… Read More »The best retro of 2013
“Have you read The Goal by Eli Goldratt? If not, you’re in for a treat.” This was a statement made by Chris Young at LKUK13 which, although it was said about every book he mentioned, was very true. I was in for a treat. Although it was written nearly 30 years… Read More »The Goal
I promise that I will do my best To do my duty to God and to the Queen To help other people And to keep the Cub Scout Law. ~ The Cub Scout Promise I repeated that phrase, which I knew verbatim, each week for a good portion of my… Read More »Back to basics
Is your business agile? Yes? Are you sure? Do you mean that your IT team is agile or do you mean that the whole of your business is working in an agile way? I keep speaking to people who say “we are an agile company” but, upon further discussion, find… Read More »Is your business really agile?
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
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 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
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
When I first started looking into Kanban, I thought I understood what Lead Time, WIP and Throughput Rate meant. I discussed how to calculate them, use them and even produced a video explaining why limiting WIP makes sense referring to them. Then I got told by a bunch of experts… Read More »Kanban Terminology
I remember an episode of Saturday Kitchen, featuring Raymond Blanc, where he refused to be drawn into the ridiculous “omelette challenge” – his sentiment was, if you don’t have a few extra minutes to cook an omelette properly, then it’s not worth making. Blanc’s belief mirrors the menu from Restaurant… Read More »Are we like chefs?
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