Agile is about delighting the customer by prioritizing valuable work for customers, as well as balancing technical debt and other work that is crucial for the health of your product or service. Wouldn't it be nice if all your work was clearly aligned to a customer or goal? Well, it can with Portfolio Kanban. Forget complex scaling frameworks. Embrace instead simplicity by designing the ideal flow of work and pulling it using Kanban. Focus on the right work at the right time with Just-In-Time backlogs. Use "brutal" prioritization and stop wasting time estimating, instead leverage Kanban metrics and techniques to generate "good enough" estimates. Finally, you will discover how to improve organizational flow with Portfolio Kanban, by tracking metrics like lead/cycle time and throughput. This is everything you need to know to set up and continuously improve the way to deliver the most valuable work to your customers, fast! Portfolio Kanban Focus On The Right Work At The Right Time
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Agile is about delighting the customer by prioritizing valuable work for customers, as well as balancing technical debt and other work that is crucial for the health of your product or service. Wouldn't it be nice if all your work was clearly aligned to a customer or goal? Well, it can with Portfolio Kanban.
Forget complex scaling frameworks. Embrace instead simplicity by designing the ideal flow of work and pulling it using Kanban. Focus on the right work at the right time with Just-In-Time backlogs. Use "brutal" prioritization and stop wasting time estimating, instead leverage Kanban metrics and techniques to generate "good enough" estimates. Finally, you will discover how to improve organizational flow with Portfolio Kanban, by tracking metrics like lead/cycle time and throughput. This is everything you need to know to set up and continuously improve the way to deliver the most valuable work to your customers, fast!
Portfolio Kanban Focus On The Right Work At The Right Time
About Dimitri PonomareffDimitri Ponomareff is a passionate coach, facilitator and public speaker. He has the ability to relate to people from all walks of life and at every level within an organization. He can motivate and energize individuals, teams or entire organizations. Dimitri is consistently recognized as an effective and successful change agent who is able to mobilize people on a path of continuous improvement. Dimitri does everything to ensure he shares his knowledge with others who seek it.
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Lean ThinkingHow to organize human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste, by focusing on these concepts: Value, Value Streams, Flow, Pull and Perfection.
The Agile Organization
Agile Mindset
Organizational agility is the ability of an organization to effectively sense and adapt in complex, rapidly changing conditions so that it can thrive as an organization.
The name 'Kanban' originates from Japanese[看板], and translates roughly as "signboard" or "billboard“.Kanban is a method for managing work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the team members. The process, from definition of a card to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see and team members pull work from a queue.
● Start with what you do now● Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change● Respect the current process, roles, responsibilities, and titles.● Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
Properties
● Visualize the workflow● Limit Work-In-Progress (WIP)● Measure and manage the flow● Make process policies explicit● Improve collaboratively using models and empirical evidence
Start with a simple board:● Start with a simple task board with three columns: to do, in process, and done.● Each card represents a work item in the current scope. Names can be associated with the
cards.● The key is to set up an easy way to visualize the work, and create an area for social interactions.
Do not overload your Kanban board:● As you start flowing cards, be aware of Muri, which focuses on not overburden your board.● Understand that multitasking doesn't work and embrace this mantra: “stop starting, and start
Invest in WIP limits and a better flow on your Kanban board:● To truly embrace Kanban, we must regulate the volume of cards on the board. This can easily be
accomplished by identifying clear thresholds associated to better defined stages of work (columns).
Use a simple formula to determine your initial WIP limitWIP limit = (team members) x 2 – 1
Kaizen is Japanese for improvement or “change for the better”.
In holding Kaizen events, organizations attempt to identify areas that are waste and how they can improve processes to deliver value to customers more quickly.
Key elements of kaizen
● Teamwork● Personal discipline● Improved morale● Quality circles● Suggestions for improvement