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The work got faster. The waiting stayed the same.
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Inside the guide
Five flow metric patterns point to decisions your team cannot make alone.
- When waiting consumes the cycle, who can change the process?3
- What does the gap between active work and throughput reveal?4
- What do repeated priority changes add to a delivery cycle?5
- What does blocked time reveal about a shared constraint?6
- What happens when ready work has to wait for funding?7
The constraint has moved
Your team can make the work faster without making delivery faster.
AI can reduce the time spent doing the work while approvals, competing initiatives, changing priorities, dependencies and funding windows continue to create waiting. The guide shows how to read that waiting in your flow metrics and determine where leadership has to act.
Separate work time from waiting time
See why faster execution does not remove delays elsewhere in the delivery system.
Find the constraint in the metrics
Learn what to examine when the team is moving quickly but work still takes too long to finish.
Identify where authority sits
Distinguish the problems a team can improve from the decisions that require leadership action.
About the author
The guide is written by Sonya Siderova, Founder and CEO of Nave.
Nave grew out of a product development team that was delivering just 25% of what it committed to. After adopting Kanban, the team began making decisions from delivery data instead of opinions. That experience eventually became Nave, a flow analytics platform trusted by 7,000+ delivery teams worldwide.
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