- Aging Work Items In my throughput post I was writing about a piled up inventory of work items which is created when the throughput (output) is lower than the demand (input). These work items are visible, they are on the Kanban board, and we call them aging work items.
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- 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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- Throughput When I started to use the Kanban method there were two measures.
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- Using Takt Time to Find Problems Earlier The idea of takt time comes from car manufacturing. It shows the elapsed time between two completely assembled cars leaving the factory floor. If the takt time is 2 hours, it means that the factory produces 12 cars a day (24h/2h = 12). With the use of takt time people in car manufacturing can detect problems in production earlier.
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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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- The Problems of the Capacity Utilization I found a very interesting quote that I wrote in one of my notebooks a long time ago.
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