Evolving Open Space at ProKanban.Org

When I got my license to teach ProKanban.Org courses in early 2020, the pandemic was just around the corner and with health restrictions in place, opportunities to meet other trainers in-person were more difficult unless you live in the vicinity of other PK trainers. Fortunately, last month, ProKanban.Org trainers had their second in-person Face-to-Face since …

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The Benefits of Defining your Service Level Expectation

“In Kanban, how do you determine what size of work item you should pull in?”  This was recently asked in one of my Kanban classes.  Often, this type of question comes from someone familiar with the Scrum framework who is trying to understand how to break work items down in Kanban. As part of the …

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Revoluciona tu flujo de trabajo: el impacto de las políticas en un sistema Kanban

Un sistema Kanban tiene como objetivo optimizar el valor optimizando el flujo al encontrar el equilibrio adecuado entre eficacia, eficiencia y previsibilidad en la forma en que se realiza el trabajo. Las políticas juegan un papel fundamental en el éxito de un sistema Kanban. Los miembros del equipo pueden comprender sus roles y responsabilidades con …

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Revolutionizing Your Workflow: The Impact of Kanban Policies

A Kanban system aims to optimize value by optimizing flow by finding the right balance of effectiveness, efficiency, and predictability in how work gets done.  Policies play a critical role in the success of a Kanban system. Policies in a Kanban system define rules, guidelines, team member roles and responsibilities, and procedures for handling work …

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What Agile gets wrong about DE&I

I was recently introduced to an incredible study about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Agile by the Business Agility Institute based on interviews and surveys with over 400 agile organizations. The report takes an academic approach to outlining critical concepts that we likely all think we know and may be blurring the lines between. And …

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Kanban for Shared Services Teams – Using data to deliver predictably

Many organizations have departments within IT where teams or individuals are specialized to do work to support product teams. These teams are often considered shared services, with team members having specific skill sets or working in an area which has traditionally been maintained by a small team. These teams often have their own initiatives to …

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Who defines the workflow, you or your team?

We regularly talk about optimizing the workflow but we don’t talk as often about who should be doing that optimization. Should it be the manager, or some dedicated process specialist, or should we be leaving it up to the team to figure out their own workflow? Spoiler: We should let the team figure it out. …

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