SPC - Yeret Agility

Encouraging Feature-level progress tracking in Kanban

By Yuval Yeret|2010-09-25T22:50:13-04:00September 25, 2010|kanban|

One of the key questions project managers and senior management in general ask themselves and their teams on an ongoing basis is - "Are we on track to deliver the scope we committed to, on time". In some environments "on budget" is added to the question. If you are talking about a Release Scope, the answers are quite similar whether you're doing Scrum or Kanban. If you don't care too much about the budget aspects, a Release Burnup can show you the [...]

Can we PLEASE have some simple measures for our Product Development group?

By Yuval Yeret|2010-09-24T15:45:24-04:00September 24, 2010|Export dec 2022, kanban, Metrics|

A lot of our clients at AgileSparks ask us how to measure their effectiveness. Some of them are already using Agile styles of product development, others are not yet there, and another important variant is the Enterprise with mixed ways of doing things, that wants to get more visibility, and use measures as a way to drive towards improvement. As we all know, we need to be very careful what we measure, and on top of that a lot of measurements [...]

Kanban early warning using a predictive variant of SPC

By Yuval Yeret|2010-09-19T22:53:46-04:00September 19, 2010|kanban, Metrics|

A Confession. While I'm a great fan of using SPC charts to explore specific cycle times and reduce variation / continuously improve a Kanban System (a great blog by benjamin mitchell), I'm only seeing preliminary results in the field with teams I'm coaching. The main reasons are lack of tooling, lack of incentive to manually manage this, and the fact that teams are not yet mature enough. I'm hoping this will change in the near future. With that in mind, a [...]