· Flow
Early Warning for Flow Issues: Cycle Time Charts
Using statistical process control techniques with Kanban flow data to detect early warning signs of delivery problems before they become crises.
Tag: kanban
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- · Agile
Why Slack Matters in an Agile/Kanban Transition
Slack isn't wasted capacity: it's what makes improvement, learning, and sustainable delivery possible during an agile/Kanban transition.
- · Agile
The Ant and the Grasshopper in Product Development
The Ant vs Grasshopper fable applied to software: why feature-first thinking creates a QA debt winter, and how to stay in sustainable ant mode.
- · 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.
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Finding the Right Dev to Test Ratio in Kanban
Dev:Test ratio is a proxy for team balance, not a target. How Kanban helps you find the right balance by making bottlenecks visible instead of guessing.
- · Agile
The Right Ratio of Developers to Testers?
Developer-to-tester ratios matter less than flow: why Kanban thinking shifts the focus from headcount balance to constraints and queues.