Blockers, stale tickets, bottlenecks need to be managed regularly to establish flow. An obvious choice for such a flow management to take place is a Daily Standup. Due to the popularity of Scrum, its approach to conducting Daily Scrums has been adopted by many teams for their Daily Standup even those not using Scrum. Is…
The Pros Limiting parallel work is a means to improve (among others) efficiency of work systems. In the Kanban context such limits are called WIP (Work in Progress or Work in Process) limits. In case of Team Kanban for instance they are set at the team level for workstations (workflow steps). It is in Team…
Introduction Continuously improving a project will necessitate making changes (among others) to the meeting structure(s). Oftentimes, “new” meetings such as Daily Standups or Retrospectives are met with resistance due to their perceived cost while established meeting such as weekly (aka Jour Fixe) meetings are considered to be indispensable. An objective view of the costs might…
Introduction In 2024, the success of IT projects is still the exception and not the rule. This holds true besides the presence of many solutions such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe etc. I would argue that the sole focus on solutions rather than the problem(s) and the underlying “forces” does not have the desired effect.…
I attended a Kanban workshop in Frankfurt, Germany in the fall of 2018. It was early in the morning, the conference room located in one of the hotel high-rises was not yet oxygen-deprived, coffee had been excellent and the group appeared lively. We were ready and eager to absorb Kanban knowledge.It was within the first…