
Flow Metrics for Scrum: WIP, Cycle Time, Throughput, and Work Item Age
A practical Scrum with Kanban guide to flow metrics. Learn how to use WIP, cycle time, throughput, and work item age in Sprint events to improve predictability.

A practical Scrum with Kanban guide to flow metrics. Learn how to use WIP, cycle time, throughput, and work item age in Sprint events to improve predictability.
Revisiting my 2011 Lean Kanban Benelux talk on commitments, flow energy, routing, and predictability, with practical guidance for today's product and portfolio environments.
How flow-based approaches reduce testing bottlenecks and stabilization costs — using WIP limits, "done is done" standards, and systematic bottleneck elevation to deliver release-quality software predictably.
How to reduce WIP in brownfield/legacy systems that already have high in-flight work — practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later approaches.

Using statistical process control techniques with Kanban flow data to detect early warning signs of delivery problems before they become crises.