Upstream Kanban is akin to a good sales process
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Do your cards on the Kanban board reflect customer requests?
By Daniel Ploeg / October 19, 2021
Ensure your kanban board reflects customer requests
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Kanban helps you achieve agility, it’s not an Agile Method
By Daniel Ploeg / October 15, 2021
Kanban helps you achieve agility, it's not an Agile Method
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Organisational agility is a “Team of Teams” sport
By Daniel Ploeg / September 29, 2021
Organisational agility is not a matter of high performing teams, but a "team of teams".
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Upstream and Downstream comparison
By Daniel Ploeg
/ October 20, 2020
Differences between upstream and downstream in Kanban Systems
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Scaling Agile Community Meetup Adelaide – Scaling Agility across your enterprise with Kanban
By Daniel Ploeg
/ October 17, 2020
Scaling Agility with Kanban
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If only we had better estimates
By Daniel Ploeg
/ October 6, 2020
Better estimates are not necessarily going to solve your problem
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The power of “Yet”
By Daniel Ploeg
/ September 10, 2020
The power of yet to move towards new possibilities
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Kanban applies over the top of your existing process
By Daniel Ploeg
/ September 7, 2020
Kanban applies over your existing process
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Story Points – should you use them?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 28, 2020
Should you use story points
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Kanban board design: sub-columns
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 14, 2020
Kanban board design sub-columns
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Are product owners a broken concept?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ July 29, 2020
Product owners are a broken concept
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Escalations create longer waits
By Daniel Ploeg
/ July 22, 2020
Escalations create longer wait times
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Using Lead Time Distribution Charts for Improvements
By Daniel Ploeg
/ July 15, 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
/ July 3, 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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Option / Backlog item expiry date
By Daniel Ploeg
/ June 24, 2020
Backlogs often become a dumping ground for ideas. Some of those ideas are good, others might need some exploration before...
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Using Input / Output charts
By Daniel Ploeg
/ June 16, 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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High performing team or better cross team interactions?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ May 7, 2020
A high performing team might make the difference in a small organisation, but as you grow its requires teams of teams to reach outcomes. Optimise the right thing for those outcomes.
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Lead Time Distribution Charts
By Daniel Ploeg
/ April 22, 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
/ April 2, 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
/ March 26, 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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WiP Limits = Focus
By Daniel Ploeg
/ March 19, 2020
One word that I continually think of when I think of WiP limits is "Focus". Essentially, WiP limits create a...
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