Archive for tag: agile

It ain’t Kanban if you don’t use WIP Limits

26 April, 2017 (20:07) | Uncategorized | By: seth

In my last post I discussed How WIP Limits work to help you get more stuff done. Some folks like to compare Kanban and Scrum, but this is not really an apples to apples comparison. Scrum is a framework with defined roles, activities and artifacts – It gives you a prescriptive formula for how to […]

How WIP Limits work to help you get more stuff done

20 July, 2016 (11:12) | Uncategorized | By: seth

An UPDATED version of this blog post is here: https://bit.ly/wip_limits Two key practices in Kanban are Limit WIP Manage Flow (image from Lean Kanban, St Louis) “Limit WIP” means limit the work in process — for any given step in your workflow you limit how many items can be in that state. So a WIP […]

Why inspect and adapt?

10 November, 2015 (14:46) | Uncategorized | By: seth

In a recent talk I gave on Scrum I highlighted the power of inspect and adapt cycles.  Or as the the Agile Principle puts it: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. First I talked about a non-agile project that did NOT inspect and adapt.   On […]