Infographic – try various formats of presenting your data. I find an Infographic style works really well with most stakeholders finding the format very engaging. Make it look good but if you’re struggling for inspiration on layout and design simply do a Google image search for Infographic. Totally lose your RAG. I’ve not used a…
Epic Sizing Ruler – extending the planning horizon
I joined an already established team, that had been working on a large scale Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation for over a year. I logged into Mingle and started to get up to speed with available planning data. My first step was to produce a burn-up chart to see how predictable the team were but also … Continue reading →
AgendaShift in action – IT Ops
Following the recent introduction of Kanban to the Internet Hosting Group (basically what we would refer to as an IT ops function in the Kanban community) of a client, I wanted to test out a new tool from Mike Burrows called AgendaShift.
The evolution of retrospecting
Many teams who use Agile practices run regular retrospectives (when was your last retrospective?!). However, these ceremonious gatherings often become stale pushing teams to look for alternative formats to fill their 2hr meeting.
Kanban from the Inside: Customer Focus, Flow, Leadership – 4 to 6 of Kanban Method’s nine values
Excerpts from chapters 4 to 6 from my book, Kanban from the Inside.
Kanban from the Inside: Transparency, Balance, Collaboration, 3 of the Kanban Method’s nine values
Excerpts from chapters 1 to 3 of my book Kanban from the Inside
“Introducing Kanban through its values”, three years on
Exactly three years ago today I published Introducing Kanban through its values. Not only is it still (and by some considerable margin) the most popular post on this blog, it is no exaggeration to say that January 3rd 2013 was a career-changing moment for me. Suddenly, I was Kanban values guy.
Risk Assessment and Common Cause Variation
Some software projects are more difficult than others. But what do I mean by difficult and how can we tell if a project is going to be difficult before we’ve even started it?
Feedback loops — a striking juxtaposition
I’m blogging here a little less frequently at the moment, but only because I’m busy onblog.agendashift.com and our Agendashift LinkedIn group, where I have been previewing new Agendashift functionality as it becomes available to its beta testers. I could easily have made this post there too, but there’s enough Kanban and Agile content here for me to show positiveincline.com some love. And why not!?
Kanban from the Inside: 23. Roll out
For this 23rd and final installment of excerpts from my book I have chosen a very short extract. I chose it not because it summarises the chapter (it doesn’t) or the book as a whole (it certainly doesn’t do that) but because it helps explain some of what I have been doing since publication.
