Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams Webinar Recording
Agile Velocity
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Join Colleen Johnson on Wednesday, October 4th, at 2:00 PM CT for a deep dive into Flow Metrics like Throughput, Cycle Time, WIP Limits, and Work Item Age.
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Sample Kanban Workflows for Non-tech Teams
Cprime
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
WIP limits. The makeup of the team makes the following WIP limits reasonable: To Do. If accomplishing this requires a lot of bandwidth, the manager may have other team members assist in preparatory tasks, and perhaps add a new column for Preparation, with a WIP limit of 4.). WIP limits. Researching – 1.
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6 Ways Business Analysts and Product Owners Contribute to Successful DevOps
BA Squared
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
6 – BAs and POs manage the backlog and limit WIP: Limiting WIP: POs can help the team focus on continuous delivery and flow by supporting the team in limiting the WIP and not focus on finishing rather than starting.
Kanban Best Practices & Cheat Sheet
Agile Velocity
MAY 27, 2020
Limit WIP (Work in Process). Limiting WIP allows us to reduce context-switching that can harm our team productivity. WIP Limits are applied to specific activity steps within the team’s process as typically modeled by a Kanban board. A WIP Limit is also known as a “constraint”, but not in a negative way. Manage Flow.
Using Kanban for Flow in Non-tech Teams
Cprime
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
work-in-progress (WIP) limits). User stories and epics travel through that workflow, following established WIP limits and policies (the agreed-upon definitions around acceptable work). And, WIP limits provide valuable control that a cross-functional Agile team can use to keep tasks moving forward optimally.
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Article: The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams
InfoQ Articles
AUGUST 31, 2022
Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps By Pavel Azaletskiy, Jack Maher. Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream.
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SAFe Team Kanban: Optimizing Workflow
My Agile Partner
OCTOBER 30, 2023
SAFe Team Kanban – kanban board Work in Process (WIP) limits set the maximum number of items for an individual workflow state. The Kanban system visualizes all active and pending work, workflow states, and WIP limits. Peer review of WIP and adjust upcoming planned work. Review and accept stories.
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How to improve process with cumulative flow diagrams
Monday
DECEMBER 22, 2022
With too much work in progress (WIP), your project will face a bottleneck. But, looking at a cumulative flow diagram, you discover this task has remained on the WIP for over eight days, with four experts working on it. It can help reduce your average cycle time, increase your teams outputs, and manage WIP limits.
Use Kanban Board Like A Pro: Basics, Elements And How To Use It.
Agilemania
DECEMBER 26, 2021
The WIP limits ensure that the team can focus on the tasks that are underway. Limit WIP and focus using the Kanban board: The Kanban can help the team to take on tasks that they can complete. This will help you evaluate and work on solutions to resolve the bottlenecks, abandoned tasks, and too many WIP tasks.
The Portfolio Kanban System & Lean Portfolio Management
Cprime
MAY 16, 2023
Implement When WIP limits permit, the team selects an epic from the backlog and inserts it into the pipeline. You can track every stage of an Epics portfolio’s lifecycle, from ideation to completion. The WSJF algorithm rates initiatives based on factors that include relative business value, opportunity enablement, and time criticality.
Fail Faster by Starting More Things
Vitality Chicago
MARCH 23, 2021
Fail Fast Thinking Leads to Too Much WIP. As the Disciplined Agile experts like to quip, “ succeeding fast is better than failing fast “ So how do we balance the idea of rapid experimentation and trying a lot of things with too much WIP? Too Much WIP is a Killer at the Personal Level. I see two possible ways out.
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Effective Metrics for Successful Product Owner
Agilemania
MAY 6, 2021
WIP – Work In Progress measures the work done by the team at one time. Ideally, the WIP of the team must be the least work they can handle while they are busy, as further additions can slow down the team by forcing them out of iteration delivery rates. Let’s check it out! Work-In-Progress. Number of Backlogs.
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Effective Metrics for Successful Product Owner
Agilemania
MAY 6, 2021
WIP – Work In Progress measures the work done by the team at one time. Ideally, the WIP of the team must be the least work they can handle while they are busy, as further additions can slow down the team by forcing them out of iteration delivery rates. Let’s check it out! Work-In-Progress. Number of Backlogs.
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How to Apply Agile to Non-Software Work
Cprime
MAY 2, 2023
Limiting your “WIP”, or Work In Progress, is one of the key tenets of Agile that is often forgotten. Reducing your WIP sounds easy enough to do, but it is often quite difficult for most of us who are accustomed to doing so, and it will require practice and persistence.
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7 Best Practices on How to Improve Team Velocity
Cprime
JANUARY 10, 2022
Experiment with WIP limit s – Limiting WIP (Work In Progress) is a lean method for optimizing flow of work. Reduce size of work items – Smaller work units will enable better flow of work, which means your team should examine large work items (i.e. This technique can also improve focus by reducing context-switching.
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AAC Sample Questions with Answers and Explanations
The BAWorld
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Limit WIP, Make Process Policies Explicit, Measure and Manage Flow Define and Visualize the Workflow, Self-Organizing, Measure and Manage Flow Limit WIP, Use Models to Suggest Improvement, Prioritize Business Value Define and Visualize the Workflow, Make Process Policies Explicit, Simplicity 14.
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Overcoming the Roadblocks in Agile Backlogs
Leading Agile
JUNE 29, 2022
Team members may not have the authority to decide how to prioritize their work, and competing demands or too much WIP further prevents clarity on what to prioritize. As previously discussed, the stories may be too big and span multiple sprints, thus preventing incremental progress to be made.
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Common User Story Mistakes Teams Make and How to Fix Them
BA Squared
JUNE 17, 2020
The downside is that this can increase WIP (work in progress) and add to the teams’ overhead to manage a lot of WIP. You can do the work, and add a blocker while waiting on the other teams to complete their work before demoing it as DONE. Work together with the other team at the same time and demo it together.
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Kanban and SAFe®: BFFs? Exploring Kanban, Scaling, and Lean-Agile Frameworks
Agile Velocity
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
” Unpacking the World of Kanban Colleen and Roger’s conversation kicked off with a deep dive into the realm of Kanban, a Lean-Agile methodology known for its focus on visualizing work, limiting work in progress (WIP), and optimizing flow.
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Top 5 scaling Agile Practice that Improves Business
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
When we strive to achieve a state of continuous flow, many of the Lean practices like WIP limit, Batch size, and Queue length need to be considered. Central idea is to get the feedback faster, helping improve business outcomes like all the facets of DevOps.
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6 steps to a writing killer project plan
Monday
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The tasks that you have a ‘Work in Progress’ (WIP) will depend on your team’s capacity. In this section, you should set your maximum number of WIPs you can have in each column at each time. Your project schedule will look a little different depending on which framework you choose. How will you manage change?
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Top 10 Best Project Management Tools for 2022 – Agilemania
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Kanban Board provides lists with the option of limiting work in progress (WIP). Kanban Board offers lists with the possibility to limit the work in progress (WIP). Document sharing. Native mobile apps, as well as other services, are perfect for medium and big organizations. Advantages: . Less Useful in a Dynamic Setting.
The 12 Agile Principles. Part Three.
Growing Agile
JULY 13, 2020
One way of doing this is to introduce a kanban system where limiting the WIP at the early stages of the process, creating an artificial bottleneck early, helps keep a sustainable pace throughout the process. If your sponsors can work at a sustainable pace, and have focus, then it makes it easier for the team to also have a sustainable pace.
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Examples of Using Kanban Boards with Data Visualization Tools
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
By examining how other companies use the Kanban boards to outline workflows, you can improve your board design, perform more excellent modes such as WIP restrictions and process policies, and acquire more power from your Kanban boards. Implementing WIP Limits. Data visualization of concurrent processes.
What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Strengthening the output – one of the ways one can maximize the output is, by managing the backlog of investment and finding the opportunities from that and also by managing the WIP across the multiple teams to speed up the delivery process.
Accelerating Value Flow
Agilemania
MARCH 21, 2023
SAFe Team Kanban is a Lean-Agile method (Figure 17) that helps Agile Teams facilitate the flow of value by visualizing workflow, establishing Work in Process (WIP) limits, delivering value continuously, measuring throughput, and improving their process.
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The Virtuous Cycle of Trust and Influence
Leading Agile
MAY 11, 2021
For example, we sit down with a client and we think their problem is around too much Work in Process (WIP). We explain to them how and why keeping WIP low reduces multi-tasking and is the best way for them to go faster. Think of this as juggling too many balls at one time.
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The Need For Speed: Fast Product Delivery & Business Agility
Agile Velocity
MAY 28, 2019
Similar to the first capability where leaders limit work-in-progress (WIP), teams need to learn the discipline of limiting WIP in their sprints and daily work. Reduce WIP, get small increments done, optimize the whole, focus with clear goals, and distribute decision making closer to the problems. You have to go slow to go fast.
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It’s All Relative
Leading Agile
JUNE 11, 2018
The result being too much Work in Process (WIP). Frustrating for the teams and certainly annoying for the stakeholders who are depending on the work to be completed. Consequently there is more pressure to double down and start work earlier. Better start now or they will NEVER get it done”. Everyone is “crowding the turnstile” at once!
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How Do SAFe and Lean Work Together?
Cprime
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Utilize Kanban correctly; apply WIP (Work-In-Progress) limits so that teams are not trying to do too much work at the same time. This seems like common sense, but often the simplest things are the easiest ones to forget about when we get preoccupied with complex issues.
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How to Build and Sustain Organizational Resilience
Agile Velocity
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Boundaries/Constraints: Pomodori, WIP limits, one quarantini, not two or three, the ability to say “No.”. Hobbies: Now that we “live at work” we need to make sure we’re not all work and no play. Connections: Planned serendipity with friends, family, colleagues, walks outside without screens/earbuds.
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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew
Agilemania
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue heights. Assume Variability, Preserve Options. Build Incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles. Base milestones on the objective evaluation of working systems. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers.
12 Incredible Reasons You Should Get a SAFe® Agile Certification
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Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths. Assume variability and preserve options. Build Incrementally with quicker integrated cycles. Base milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of the knowledge base.
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Nanny McPhee Returns
Growing Agile
OCTOBER 6, 2020
One way to do this is to implement a pull system with strict work in process limits on a kanban board. Even if you are using the Scrum framework, you can still track work in the sprint using a kanban board.
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¿Qué es Legal Kanban?
Netmind
MARCH 20, 2024
Mediante el uso de señales visuales (“kan” “ban”), limitaremos progresivamente la cantidad de Trabajo en Curso o Work In Progress (WIP), que es el trabajo que estamos haciendo al mismo tiempo (generalmente demasiado), estableciendo reglas o políticas de priorización.
How to Pass Implementing SAFe SPC Training Exam in your First Attempt
Agilemania
JANUARY 19, 2022
Visualize and Limit WIP . Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 2 and 3. SAFe Core Values. Lean Agile Mindset . SAFe Lean Agile Principles. Assume variabilitypreserve options. Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. Establishing team and technical agility (3%).
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Descubriendo Kanban: el Camino Evolutivo a la Agilidad Empresarial
Netmind
APRIL 23, 2024
Las historia de Kanban desde sus orígenes El libro inicia con la conocida visita de David y su familia a los Jardines Imperiales en Tokio en 2005, detallando con gran precisión este momento clave en la historia y esencia de Kanban.
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Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Your Transformation Journey
Agile Velocity
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Limiting your organizational WIP helps create a clear sense of urgency. . Predictability: Increase the business value realized while maintaining or reducing costs. We recommend that your organization focus on a select few outcomes. Sorry, you can’t have them all at once!) Reasons To Measure.
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Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Your Transformation Journey
Agile Velocity
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Limiting your organizational WIP helps create a clear sense of urgency. . Predictability: Increase the business value realized while maintaining or reducing costs. We recommend that your organization focus on a select few outcomes. Sorry, you can’t have them all at once!) Reasons To Measure.
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Fresh Agile Voices – Episode 6 – Bob Galen
Vitality Chicago
APRIL 8, 2021
My WIP limit. So I have to manage by volunteer WIP, but in all seriousness, what anyone who’s seeing this, you, I would like to inspire you to take personal accountability and try to find something small that you can do seriously, reach out to Anthony and seriously reach out to me. Keep that WIP level sustainable.
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Roadmapping and Budgeting with Rapid Estimation
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
We want to schedule work to completion, limiting a team’s WIP to one epic at a time. Not, so many hours of Fred, this many hours of Sue, that many hours of Jack, and on and on; a jigsaw puzzle of people partially allocated to lots of projects. The whole team. Not 70% of Fred, Sue and 50% of Bonnie.
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What Is the Role & Responsibilities of a SAFe® Scrum Master?
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
These may include the rules of Scrum, best engineering practices Extreme Programming (XP), Work in Process (WIP) limits from Kanban, and any other process rules the team has agreed. . The rules of an Agile Team are lightweight, but they are rules nonetheless, and the Scrum Master is responsible for reinforcing them.
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Introducing Jane Aboyoun, CIO, SCO Family of Services
GAVS Technology
MARCH 15, 2021
I vowed to never go near a computer and that stood until I was faced with tracking millions of dollars in WIP (work-in-process) inventory in one of Nestle’s production facilities. Of all the courses that I took, that one was the most challenging for me and I barely passed the course.
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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania
Agilemania
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths. Assume variability and preserve options. Build Incrementally with quicker integrated cycles. Base milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of the knowledge base.
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