· Scrum
Promises You Can Keep, Without Sprint Commitment
How Scrum teams make reliable delivery promises without rigid sprint commitment: using Classes of Service to handle fixed-date items honestly.
How Scrum teams make reliable delivery promises without rigid sprint commitment: using Classes of Service to handle fixed-date items honestly.
Stack ranking work items in a Kanban system: when explicit priority order earns its keep, and when WIP limits do the job instead.
Revisiting my 2011 Lean Kanban Benelux talk on commitments, flow energy, routing, and predictability, and what still applies today.
Kanban classes of service solve the coordination problem between generalist and specialist roles, and manage shared dependencies without new bottlenecks.