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Your delivery metrics can look healthy while open work keeps getting older.
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Inside the guide
Flow Debt follows unfinished work from the board to the forecast.
- How does flow debt accumulate?3
- What does an expedite borrow?4
- What happens when there is no pull policy?5
- What does a blocker add while an item stays open?6
- Where does the balance show?7
- What is the real cost of flow debt?8
- How do you start repaying it?9
The problem behind healthy delivery metrics
What if the risk is sitting in the work that has not shipped yet?
Cycle time can be on target and throughput steady while the board is loaded with aging work. Flow Debt looks at the part of the system that completed-work metrics can miss.
What healthy metrics can hide
Why cycle time and throughput can look fine while risk accumulates in open work.
How flow debt builds
See how blocked work, expedites and missing pull policies add debt to the system.
How it affects your forecast
Understand why aging WIP changes the answer to “When will this ship?”
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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