· Agile
How to Improve Flow By Focusing on Exceptions
Managing by exception with a visual board: surfacing only what needs attention instead of reviewing every work item. A simple practice that improves flow.
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- · Kanban
Using Kanban to improve your recruiting process
Applying Kanban to recruiting: visualizing the hiring pipeline, limiting WIP on candidates, and using flow metrics to improve time-to-hire and cut drop-off.
- · Games
Simulating Time-Boxed Agile in getKanban
How to add sprint mechanics to the getKanban board game — making it a useful simulation for comparing time-boxed and flow-based approaches side by side.
- · 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.
- · Kanban
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.
- · Blog
Invest in your Product Owner
Why the Product Owner is often the most underinvested role in Scrum, and why getting stories to READY-READY is a business investment, not a process step.