The Story Points Detox Plan Shortcut
You don't need a new experiment to switch from velocity to flow metrics — your historical sprint data is already the experiment. A practical shortcut for the story points detox plan.
You don't need a new experiment to switch from velocity to flow metrics — your historical sprint data is already the experiment. A practical shortcut for the story points detox plan.
A Portfolio Kanban is just a traffic visualization until you actively manage it. Here's what right-to-left portfolio review looks like — and how it catalyzes strategic conversations without forcing them.
Optimizing for 100% utilization creates inventory backlogs and hidden waste. Why Theory of Constraints thinking — find the bottleneck, subordinate everything else — is the smarter path to organizational throughput.
Flow metrics — throughput, cycle time, WIP, and work item age — apply across SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban. A practical guide to mapping them to your specific framework combination.
A podcast conversation on how SAFe, Kanban, and Scrum complement each other — and where the friction points are when teams try to combine them.
A deep-dive podcast conversation on the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course: why it exists, what it teaches, and what it means to apply Kanban within a Scrum context.