We’ve all heard of the term Kaizen, and we all know that it is the practice of continuous improvement. The practice of Kaizen has served many of the teams and organisations I have worked with well. Teams that were previously floundering in mediocrity grew into great teams by the fact… Read More »When gradual improvement is not enough
What percentage of your team’s time is actually spent working on the items that are ‘in progress’? 70%? 75%? 80%? Some suggest that it is as low as 2% and that 40% is the most that’s been observed. This is the world of flow efficiency. Originating from the manufacturing industry,… Read More »Flow Efficiency
In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries advocates considering the development of a product as a “grand experiment that aims to answer a question”. With that question being “should the product be built?”. The idea is that, once you know the problem you are trying to solve, then you create a… Read More »The Design Sprint
Is there ever a time when it is okay to not limit your work in progress or ever a time when it is okay to fully load your system? Most people’s answer would be “probably not”. In most circumstances that would be the correct answer. We see the consequences of… Read More »Is it ever okay to fully load a system?
Question: What could be better than a lunchtime mini-conference in the fresh air? Answer: A day long version followed by some fireside dining Scrum & Kanban is happy to be sponsoring the first Agile on the Bench one-day conference on 25 July 2015. Following a similar format to the lunchtime sessions that have… Read More »Agile on the Bench goes Camping
“When is it going to be ready?”, “How long will it take?”. As someone involved in software delivery, you are probably asked these questions or something like them, every day. However you choose to answer the question, you’ve probably taken into consideration the capacity of your team. For most people,… Read More »Increasing Capacity: A Question of Capability
It’s time to throw out that Christmas CD. Seriously, I don’t want to listen to Lennon’s So This Is Christmas ever again. The alternative? Our tongue-in-cheek agile and lean-related playlist. It was born during lunch at this year’s Kanban retreat in Lisbon. Even Flow by Pearl Jam was an early… Read More »Scrum & Kanban playlist
The definition of constraint in English: NOUN A limitation or restriction (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/constraint) The systems that we work in often face limitations or restrictions. These can stop us efficiently reaching our goals. What is the Theory of Constraints? The Theory of Constraints, created by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and illustrated in… Read More »Theory of Constraints
“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software” As we all know this is the first principle behind the Agile Manifesto. But how do we understand the value of the things we are working on and delivering? And why would we want… Read More »Cost of Delay
Imagine working in a hospital and accidentally injecting someone with the wrong thing (a toxic antiseptic instead of a harmless dye). Over the next three weeks, as a result of your mistake, they slowly die. This was the fate of a “much loved mother-of-four”, Mary McClinton, in a Seattle hospital… Read More »Life and Death Kanban
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