Kanban board design: sub-columns
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 14/08/2020
Kanban board design sub-columns
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Are product owners a broken concept?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 29/07/2020
Product owners are a broken concept
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Escalations create longer waits
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 22/07/2020
Escalations create longer wait times
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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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Option / Backlog item expiry date
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 24/06/2020
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
/ 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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High performing team or better cross team interactions?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 07/05/2020
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
/ 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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WiP Limits = Focus
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 19/03/2020
One word that I continually think of when I think of WiP limits is "Focus". Essentially, WiP limits create a...
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Do you need Rockstars?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 06/03/2020
Everyone has probably seen a job ad for a "rockstar" team member, or perhaps it's come under a different name...
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If something’s not working, do something different. If something is working, do something different.
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 03/03/2020
The origin of this statement for me goes back nearly 20 years ago when I attended a technical leadership training...
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Kanban Books
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 28/02/2020
A Listing of Kanban Related Books Over time, I've accumulated a number of Kanban books, however I don't think I've...
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“It’s on the Backlog”
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 24/02/2020
I've heard this being said a number of times with teams and it often reminds me of the story the...
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Large Batch Death Spiral
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 20/02/2020
This is a term I first come across in Don Reinertsen's "Principles of Product Development Flow" book ("B9: The Batch...
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Uncovering embedded options through a bias for delivery
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 17/02/2020
I've recently been thinking about a number of experiences in my career where organisations who have a bias for delivery...
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Use options instead of backlogs
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 12/02/2020
Often we become constrained in our thinking by the language we use - a good example is the use of...
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