Kanban ·
Can We Please Have Simple Product Dev Metrics?
Executives want simple metrics for product development. But simple metrics for complex work often create perverse incentives. Which ones signal health.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership: written from 15+ years in the field.
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Kanban ·
MMF driven sprints in a Kanban world
Using Minimally Marketable Features as the atomic unit for Scrum sprints in a Kanban-influenced delivery system: better value flow, same sprint structure.
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Flow ·
Early Warning for Flow Issues: Cycle Time Charts
Using statistical process control techniques with Kanban flow data to detect early warning signs of delivery problems before they become crises.
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Why Slack Matters in an Agile/Kanban Transition
Slack isn't wasted capacity: it's what makes improvement, learning, and sustainable delivery possible during an agile/Kanban transition.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper in Product Development
The Ant vs Grasshopper fable applied to software: why feature-first thinking creates a QA debt winter, and how to stay in sustainable ant mode.
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Can lanes be skipped in a kanban board?
Kanban boards model your workflow, but should work items always touch every column? When skipping lanes is legitimate vs when it signals a process problem.
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