· 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 design problem.
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Finding the right Dev to Test Ratio when working in Kanban
Dev:Test ratio is a proxy for team balance, not a target to optimize. How Kanban helps you find the right balance by making bottlenecks visible instead of guessing at headcount ratios.
- · Agile
So what is the right ratio between developers and testers?
Developer-to-tester ratios are less important than flow — why Kanban thinking shifts the focus from headcount balance to constraint identification and queue management.
- · Kanban
Using Kanban to drive Continuous Improvement and Management Teams
How management teams can use Kanban to focus and execute continuous improvement initiatives — prioritizing improvement backlog, using WIP limits to force focus, and leading by example in Lean/Agile transitions.
- · Blog
The cost of iterations applied to Kanban as well…
The overhead of iterations does not disappear with Kanban — but it does shift from fixed-cadence overhead to on-demand transaction cost that can be optimized differently.
- · Blog
David Anderson shares Goals for using Kanban
David Anderson on the goals behind the Kanban method: not just flow optimization, but organizational evolutionary change — improving service delivery while managing risk.