How to Use Kanban Analytics to Streamline Your Scrum Events
More and more Scrum teams realize the benefits of adopting Kanban to manage their work more effectively. And the benefits are countless. Adopting practices from both worlds is a very effective strategy, which provides many businesses with an unprecedented competitive…
The 3 Mistakes I Made by Using a Kanban Blocked Column (+ What I Learned from Them)
If an item is blocked for weeks, do you keep it in the same column and allow it to occupy the WIP in that column, or is it more convenient to move it to a dedicated Kanban blocked column? Back…
The Flaw of Tracking Individual Performance
What you measure shows what you value! If we’re measuring individual performance, that clearly indicates to each person in the team that we value individual performance. If your team members think that individual performance is a metric of value, they…
The True Purpose Of Story Splitting
Story splitting is a widely spread activity that enables teams to deliver results quickly and efficiently. Still, it doesn’t come without its challenges. The concept of story splitting can be really powerful if it’s done with the right motivation. Imagine…
How to Handle Abandoned Work Items to Preserve the Stability of Your Delivery System
Are you aware of the impact that abandoned work has on the predictability of your system and your overall performance? This is a hugely neglected topic, that actually has great potential to introduce opportunities for improvement in your working practices. …
The 7-Step Sustainable Predictability Roadmap
Let’s talk about building our credibility for a moment. What does it take to build our reputation as professionals? Can we and our teams commit to a delivery scope or delivery date that we could actually meet? Do we have…
The Little-Known Facts about Little’s Law: How to Fast Track Your Way to More Predictable Delivery Systems
Sustainable predictability can be achieved by enabling stable delivery systems. And Little’s Law ultimately defines that phenomenon. Let’s look into some little-known facts about the law and reveal the true value that it brings to our management practices. What is…
How to Enable a Stable Delivery System in 2 Easy Steps (Even if You’re Just Getting Started!)
What is the main prerequisite to enabling sustainable predictability and making reliable delivery forecasts? Is it to slice your stories into even pieces? Or, you’ll probably need to have a ton of data to base your delivery prediction on. Not…
4 Myths of Probabilistic Forecasting
Probabilistic forecasting is an approach that helps teams produce dependable delivery predictions based on their past performance data. A lot of teams, however, still question whether they should use this method. Today, we’ll dispel four of the most widely spread myths…
How to Develop a Probabilistic Mindset to Enable Reliable Delivery Commitments
Developing a probabilistic mindset is the ultimate secret to managing risks effectively and making reliable delivery commitments. Making probabilistic forecasts helps us maintain high levels of customer and stakeholder trust, satisfaction and retention. It also allows us to define service…
The Management Paradox: When It’s Time to Stop Managing People
Managing people does not lead to improvements in your delivery performance. This is due to one simple reason – time spent at a desk doesn’t necessarily translate into productive time. Productivity should, first and foremost, be assessed in terms of…
How the J Curve Effect Defines the Success of Your Transformation Initiative
There is a concept called the J curve effect that explains why revolutionary changes usually fail. What’s more, this approach ultimately defines the success threshold of our transformation initiative. The need for change emerges when there is no longer satisfaction…
How the Wizards Scrum Team Immensely Improved Their Predictability in Just 2 Months (all by Applying a Simple Pull Strategy)
It’s astonishing to see in practice how a simple pull strategy can improve the predictability of your delivery system so significantly, even after just a couple of months. The Wizards are a development team, working for a start-up digital signage…