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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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Don’t Be a Ditka

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 …

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