“There’s no predictability/commitment in Agile” Over the years I’ve heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: “When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly” “In the old days when we …
“There’s no predictability/commitment in Agile” Over the years I’ve heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: “When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly” “In the old days when we ran …
Introduction Don Reinertsen frequently talks about how surprised teams are when they first try to quantify the cost of delay on one of their projects/programs and an exercise he runs to help surface the wide range of intuitive estimates of the cost of delay amongst the team and how a little bit of analysis can …
I frequently get contacted by people who like Kanban in general but are worried that it might not be a good fit for their context. In some cases the concern is legit but in many others it is just a result of basic misunderstanding of Kanban. We need to figure out why this happens so …
A concern that comes up frequently when you start talking about applying a WIP limit is: “So, what I understand from you is that at some point you will block incoming work requests if the WIP limit is reached, yes? Well, we cannot do that. We cannot tell people we will not work on their …
