Kanban ·
What Is Kanban? My Elevator Pitch for Scrum Folks
A simple elevator-pitch explanation of Kanban for Scrum practitioners — what Kanban adds, what it changes, and why the two are complementary.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Kanban ·
Why Batch Defects If You Don't Batch Email?
Batching defect reviews feels productive, but creates the same interruption cost as email checking — applying Kanban flow thinking to bug triage cadences.
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Tracking Feature-level Progress in Kanban
Tracking progress at the feature level instead of tasks or sprints — the management behaviors and visibility that shift teams from activity to outcomes.
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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.
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MMF driven sprints in a Kanban world
Using Minimally Marketable Features as the atomic unit for Scrum sprints in a Kanban-influenced delivery system — better value flow, same sprint structure.
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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.
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