Everything You Need to Know About Lead Time vs. Cycle Time
In this article, we take a look at two important metrics commonly used in the Kanban method: Lead time and cycle time. Understanding both metrics can help you in understanding your team's performance better, but also significantly affect the overall efficiency of your business process. What is Lead Time?
Set Realistic Work Expectations with Kanban
Over the course of the years, defining work expectations has always been an important part of day to day activities of project managers and project teams. Whether working in your own project or as part of a team, once starting a piece of work, you probably were asked by
Decipher the Patterns: Cycle Time Scatter Plot
The utilization of the Agile Kanban method allows the evaluation of important metrics associated with the process under consideration. Among the main metrics usually employed through the Kanban method, one of the most relevant metrics is the process cycle time, and with it comes the cycle time scatter plot.
Kanban Calculations: How to Calculate Cycle Time
In the context of Agile methodologies, the Kanban method has gained significant application over the years aiming at better controlling and understanding the process flow required to deliver high quality products or services. The Agile Kanban method permits inferring specific metrics (sometimes also known as terms or parameters) associated
Card Aging – A Fun and Helpful Visual Signal for Kanban
Kanban promotes visualizing work. This can be accomplished by having a Kanban board with explicit agreements, WIP limits, and cards with clear signals. Because Kanban is all about improving the flow of work, it’s great to see bottlenecks, but the ability to visualize card aging is both fun and
How Scrum Masters Are Using Kanban to Improve Scrum
If you’re a seasoned Scrum practitioner, you’ve most likely witnessed horrific implementations of Scrum throughout your consulting career. Some organizations go gung-ho on “doing Scrum.” All their messages, training programs, and campaigns scream Agile. But when you look closely, they seem to be putting on a show or what
