Category Archives: Kanban

Observing Replenishment

Posted on February 7, 2016 by

Replenishment (or commitment) meeting is an activity concerning the decisions made at the so-called first commitment point of a Kanban system. It is one of the seven Kanban cadences, which are all part of the Kanban method. Cadenced events happen, … Continue reading →

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Kanban Games

Posted on January 27, 2016 by

As someone with good knowledge of the Kanban method, people ask me from time to time about good games as learning tools to aid people in learning the method. Also, as an accredited trainer and coach, I must be using … Continue reading →

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Is Agile Costing Too Much?

Posted on January 6, 2016 by

Hi Alexei, I hope you’re doing well. I was thinking of you because we have a client in [location] and they have a 6-month opening for an Agile coach. Would you be available to start February 15? Regards, [Name withheld] … Continue reading →

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Introducing the STATIK Canvas

Posted on April 21, 2015 by

Update (2018) For the up-to-date version of this STATIK A3 paper, please see this more recent post. You can also download the paper from my firm’s website. The Original Post (largely relevant still) I’d like to introduce a new simple … Continue reading →

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#BeyondVSM: Understanding and Mapping Your Process of Knowledge Discovery

Posted on September 17, 2014 by

This short post will serve as the “table of contents” for a series of six posts I wrote this year about mapping processes in creative industries based on knowledge creation and information discovery and not by handoffs of work between … Continue reading →

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Lead Time and Iterative Software Development

Posted on September 15, 2014 by

I have introduced my forecasting cards and written about lead time distributions in my recent blog post series. Now I’d like to turn to how these concepts apply in iterative software development, particularly the popular process framework Scrum. Let’s consider one of … Continue reading →

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Introducing Lead Time Forecasting Cards

Posted on September 10, 2014 by

I’m introducing a simple tool: lead time forecasting cards. Each card displays a pre-calculated distribution shape, using Weibull distribution with shape parameters 0.75, 1 (Exponential distribution), 1.25, 1.5, 2 (Rayleigh distribution), and 3. (Since I printed the first batch, I … Continue reading →

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Lead Time Distributions and Antifragility

Posted on September 9, 2014 by

This post continues the series about lead-time distribution and deals with risks involved in matching real-world lead-time data sets to known distributions and estimating the distribution parameters. One of the key ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Antifragile is the … Continue reading →

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How to Match to Weibull Distribution without Excel

Posted on September 8, 2014 by

A bit more than one year ago, I wrote a short, but fairly technical post on how to do this without complicated statistical tools, only using something found in many modern offices: spreadsheet software such as Excel. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Inside a Lead Time Distribution

Posted on September 7, 2014 by

My earlier post discussed: how to measure lead time how to analyze lead distribution charts how to get better understanding of lead time by breaking down multimodal (work item type mix) lead time data sets into unimodal (by work item … Continue reading →

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