- Wrong WIP Limits Will Kill Your Options At Lean Agile Scotland 2013 Chris Matts mentioned that the WIP limits kill the options. He didn't really explain his statement in detail but I had been thinking about it and I dare to say that Chris was half right. He often talks about staff liquidity as well, which tells us how likely our staff will be able to work on a problem or a feature.
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- Flow Efficiency Last year in the Lean Kanban University conference series I was talking about flow efficiency and how we measured and used it with one of my old teams. My friend Chris McDermott asked me to write a post about it, so here it comes. Like other metrics such as cycle time, takt time, and throughput, flow efficiency comes from car manufacturing.
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- I broke the WIP limit TWICE, still on the team - slides I've finally uploaded the slides for my I broke the WIP limit TWICE, still on the team talk. I gave this talk at Lean Kanban France and at Make Better Decisions with Modern Management Methods (a.k.a. Lean Kanban the Netherlands 2013), and will give it at the same branded conference in London in a week (a.
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- Does the WIP Limit Have to Match the Demand? At the Kanban Leadership Retreat 2013, Janice Linden showed us the Why limiting work in progress makes sense (Kanban)? video by David Lowe. Later on, David asked me about the video, so I had a closer look. (You may want to check his video before continuing reading.
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- The Lead Time Is The Time The Customer Must Wait to Get What She Asked For The lead time plays an important role in the Kanban method and yet the Kanban community is working with different definitions. We agree that the lead time is a time interval, but when we talk about where it starts and where it ends, the answer is almost always it depends or we measure it differently.
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- When Will It Be Done? I recently had to have my watch repaired. I brought it to the watch shop where it turned out that it could not be fixed, because a main part needed to be completely replaced, but they didn't have any spare parts. The lady behind the counter told me that she had no idea how much time it would take to get it.
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- Brown Bag Lunch Talk: Measure and Manage Flow This Tuesday, I had my first brown bag lunch talk at prezi, where I talked about measuring and managing the flow. Here are my slides.
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- Meetup: Kanban in 5 Minutes Yesterday evening I gave a 5 minute long lightning talk at Bp New Tech Meetup about Kanban focusing on the measure and manage flow principle. Here are my slides.
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