The Sprint Increment Is Dead
The Sprint Increment Got Us Here If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. Heck, many of the [...]
Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) – some anecdotes worth thinking about when using Kanban with Scrum
Co-Creating and teaching the new Scrum.org Professional Scrum with Kanban class has given me an opportunity to get back to geeking out on WIP limits, flow metrics and all things Kanban. And [...]
4 Key Flow Metrics and how to use them in Scrum’s events
In the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams and the Professional Scrum with Kanban workshop, we introduce 4 key flow metrics that we believe Scrum teams can use to improve their flow: Work in Progress [...]
Seeing The Big Picture With Scrum
A common phenomenon happening in organizations implementing scrum is that something is missing – the big picture. People are saying “We used to have High Level Designs – where are [...]
Develop it when it’s ripe
We need good metaphors to better understand software development. Good metaphors from our day to day can help us better understand this elusive domain. Some time ago I wrote about traffic and not [...]
The Critical Difference Between Backlog and To Do (Kanban, Scrum)
When we build a kanban board to manage our work (either practicing Kanban or Scrum) we usually create a Backlog list (usually the first column) and a To Do list (following the Backlog). [...]
Avoiding Over Utilization Field Trip
You can read in many places (for example here or in Don Reinersten’s Book The Principles of Product Development Flow) that when you avoid over utilization (that is, use less than 100% [...]
Why “Cost of Delay”?
Don Reinerstern in his book “The Principles of Product Development Flow” writes about the importance of having an economic view when making decisions. This is as usually we are [...]
