Story Points are vanity metrics
Story points are vanity metrics
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Using Lead Time Distribution Charts for Improvements
Lead time distribution charts are very useful for making improvements to your system of work. Understanding what to target and when will ensure that you get the best “bang for your buck” in improvements. Making these improvement will help you stablise your system of work and improve predictability which will open the door for the …
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Using Work Item Ageing Charts
Work item ageing charts are particularly useful for solving issues that are currently impacting your teams. Whilst other charts such as Lead Time Distributions and Scatterplots can be useful for coming up with countermeasures for issues that you experience in the past, Work Item Ageing charts are useful for the present issues. Lets look at …
Using Input / Output charts
These are not very widely used, but are one of my favourite charts for helping to manage flow. I find it quite simple as well, which once you finish this article I hope you also find it equally simple and useful. When managing flow you often want to make sure you team are not taking …
Lead Time Distribution Charts
One of the really useful charts that I commonly use with Kanban implementations are lead time distribution charts. Given that lead time is one of the key metrics, at least from a customers perspective, understanding the nature of lead times for your Kanban system is a must for ensuring a more fit-for-purpose and customer focused …
Lead time scatterplots
Lead time scatterplots are an important tool for a team working with Kanban. Sometimes these are referred to as a “Control Chart” which is often the case in manufacturing. However, in knowledge work I think it’s less about the “control” mechanism and more about using it to improve the capability of the term providing the …