“This Kanban thing is interesting, but it won’t work well for our team. We aren’t software engineers.” –me As I sat in a hotel room one night six years ago in the waning days of a weeklong team offsite, I was trying frantically to find a reasonably priced option to fly home a day early. …
We all want to design our Kanban boards to enable consistent, smooth flow of work all the way from start to finish. Unfortunately, that capability doesn’t come naturally and the way we often visualize our work processes can unknowingly cause dysfunction. In this post, we share some important things to consider (at least from our …
A few days a week I wake up before the sun, power down some coffee, and head to a heated studio to practice yoga. I’m greeted by cheerful instructors who ask me about my kids or my weekend and I head in to sweat on my mat. I could 100% practice yoga at home and …
Tel fût la réaction de mon collègue lorsque je lui annonçais le dépôt de ma candidature pour devenir un formateur pour ProKanban.org à la fin de 2020. “C’est juste une autre saveur de Kanban” me dit-il. J’ai écouté sa réaction et son argumentaire à propos d’organisations qui désiraient bénéficier de la popularité du mot Kanban. …
During the Summer of 2017, I went to the famed land of theme parks and queuing that is Orlando. Of course, you can pay a little extra to avoid the wait — which also impacts the size of the queues. You find times where even this doesn’t help though or you’ve used up your allowance for the …
Or, Can You Prioritize Your Way to Optimizing Value?Or, CD3 is Bollocks TL;DR: CD3 is often touted as a prioritization/sequencing method used to help an organization maximize its value delivery. However, CD3 requires a specific set of assumptions to be true in order to provide an optimal result. Those assumptions are simply not valid in …
In practically every training class and consultancy work we do in Actineo there are two ideas that someone will bring up at some point: Ticket size matters Tickets need to be of the same size To me, those are two myths.
Imagine that we are setting up a world basketball tournament. You are given first pick to draft players for your team and you end up with the line up in the picture below –
