Metrics
Story Points are vanity metrics
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 14/07/2023
Story points are vanity metrics
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Don’t follow the ball, look at the whole pitch
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 23/03/2022
Estimates don't always represent your whole system of work
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Using Lead Time Distribution Charts for Improvements
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 15/07/2020
Lead time distribution charts are very useful for making improvements to your system of work. Understanding what to target and...
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Using Work Item Ageing Charts
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 03/07/2020
Work item ageing charts are particularly useful for solving issues that are currently impacting your teams. Whilst other charts such...
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Using Input / Output charts
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 16/06/2020
These are not very widely used, but are one of my favourite charts for helping to manage flow. I find...
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Lead Time Distribution Charts
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 22/04/2020
One of the really useful charts that I commonly use with Kanban implementations are lead time distribution charts. Given that...
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How to read a cumulative flow diagram
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 02/04/2020
Cumulative Flow diagrams can contain quite a lot of information for observations. However, they can also be a little daunting...
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Lead time scatterplots
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 26/03/2020
Lead time scatterplots are an important tool for a team working with Kanban. Sometimes these are referred to as a...
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