The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Lee Henson Within the Agile framework, work in progress (WIP) is the amount of work that is currently being worked on but not yet completed by the team or organization. In this article, we will explore the importance of limiting WIP in Agile and how it can help teams to work more efficiently and effectively.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 7, 2023

This requirement translates into improving the flow of value through Scrum—a process framework popular in Agile product development. Keep reading for everything you need to know about how controlling work in progress (WIP) and managing work item age are pivotal in optimizing value delivery.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the context of agile teams and Kanban adoption, I'm reminded of 'The Princess Bride,' a classic film where Vizzini frequently exclaims 'Inconceivable!' Much like Vizzini's misuse of the word ' Inconceivable ,' many teams often misunderstand or misuse terms like 'Kanban,' 'Scrum,' and 'Agile.'

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Did you know that adding the complementary Kanban practice of limiting the amount of work in progress (WIP) can help? If we start all tasks on the same day, we reduce the team collaboration that could have happened had we limited the WIP. . Sounds simple, right?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 11, 2023

One of the lesser-known but highly impactful complimentary practices that can be used with Scrum is the concept of limiting work in progress (WIP). Understanding Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) The concept of limiting work in progress revolves around the principle that focusing on fewer tasks at a time leads to better outcomes.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Diese Frage werde ich heute am Beispiel von Kanban beantworten. Ich zeige dir, wie du die Ideen von Visualisierung des Workflows, aktivem Management laufender Arbeit, Begrenzung von Work in Progress (WIP) und kontinuierlicher Verbesserung in deinem Scrum Team umsetzen kannst. Kanban optimiert die Effizienz. Ich stimme dir zu.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Using a Kanban Board is a great way to help the Scrum Team focus on the team's collective work and not their individual progress. Flow metrics can further enhance the discussion by looking at Item Age, WIP Limits, Throughput, and Cycle Time. WIP LIMITS: [link]. We should plan and collaborate as a team.

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MPUG

JANUARY 22, 2024

Two widely accepted Lean-Agile approaches, iteration- and flow-based, are embraced by Agile practitioners. While iteration-based Agile prescribes an iteration, in flow-based Agile, iterations are not prescribed. The most well-known framework for iteration-based Agile is Scrum , while Kanban represents flow-based Agile.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. The Kanban Method can teach agile practitioners many useful ideas about incremental improvement, successful organizational change, and improved team performance. Kanban Principles. Change management.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Daniel is the co-founder of ProKanban.org, a venture conceived of, by, and for the Kanban community. Its mission is to support all Kanban practitioners (new or old) by providing a safe and inclusive forum to learn about Kanban. For example: What would be a 2-minute explanation of Kanban? If so, what are the warning signs?

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! In this article, Andrea explains the Kanban method in detail starting from its origin to its principles and its application.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 28, 2020

Rethinking agile – Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility written by Klaus Leopold is great book to cope with agile transformations and what you have to do to increase the chance of success. It definitely busted the myth that having agile teams makes you agile. What is happening upstream?

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2019

Any agile framework or method introduction (or implementation) is rather about a never-ending journey, a continuous and virtuous improvement cycle, rather than a remote and coveted destination. Are You not Doing Kanban Either? Kanban Method has a different message. However, life is not all that black and white.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

ProjectManager is project management software that streamlines processes and offers multiple project views including Gantt charts, sheets, task lists, calendars and kanban boards. It also has limited task dependencies that you can only set up with dates, which is not useful for managing a project. ProjectManager.

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MPUG

MAY 24, 2020

What is Agile project management? Agile project management is an approach with a focus on the finished product and the satisfaction of the customer. There are different models used in Agile development processes. The best-known are: Kanban. Kanban Project Management with Office 365. Extreme Programming (XP).

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Kanban is king. So, when it comes to understanding it in detail, we should first understand the different terminologies associated with Kanban. 10 Different Kanban Terminologies to Know About. Here is a list of the different Kanban terminologies that we are going to talk about in this article. Kanban System.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 26, 2021

If you are familiar with agile methodologies , then Kanban makes it to the top tier. While organizations small and big have used Kanban and seen phenomenal results. . What is Kanban Board? . A Kanban Board is an agile project management tool created to help envision workflow in your organization.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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MPUG

MARCH 7, 2022

Like Sprint or Release Burndown charts in Scrum, cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs) are frequently used in projects using a Kanban framework. This is because one of the fundamental aspects of Kanban is this: Manage the flow. Imagine an Agile development team is delivering a number of features on-demand. Our Project Scenario.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The software uses kanban boards, which are a great visual workflow tool, but one size doesn’t fit all. Those who work in an agile environment certainly appreciate kanban boards, but probably not the rigidity of Microsoft Planner. In fact, they do kanban better than Microsoft, which is why it’s high on our list.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Kanban is a great approach for visualizing progress in initiatives involving rapid change. This post provides an overview of Kanban, the key elements of Kanban boards, and the impact and usefulness of Kanban to strategy and project management. What Is the Kanban Project Methodology? Work-In-Progress (WIP) Limits.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The benefits of lean having been proven, lean then rippled its way into project management through Agile approaches such as Scrum that are applied mainly but not exclusively to software product development. Originating from Japan, “Kanban ” means “visual signal.” This helps eliminate Muda and optimize workflows.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2019

In the first part of Getting to 85 – Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile we looked at the Cycle Time Scatterplot as generated by ActionableAgile software. Kanban gives a simple answer – it does not matter. CFD Agile Metrics for Estimation. Firstly, we see that team’s WIP is growing. Well, almost. The estimation is over.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 16, 2024

Types of Work on a Kanban board You could argue, on a Kanban board we have: discovery work; development work; and delivery work. The 4 Time Horizons You need to think about on your Kanban Board You could argue there are four time horizons. Kanban vs Scrum: the approach to the backlog In Kanban, the backlog is optional.

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Growing Agile

JULY 13, 2020

This is the third part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. “Agile processes promote sustainable development. “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.” The post The 12 Agile Principles. appeared first on Growing Agile. Part Three.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I’ll use the definition of throughput as defined in the Kanban guide for Scrum teams : Throughput: The number of work items finished per unit of time. There isn’t a WIP limit on the Deploy column because it is easy for the development team to catch all PBIs in this column at the end of the day and push them into production.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2020

I have yet to meet an Agile practitioner who would say that the original Scrum idea and perfection vision it provides isn’t good. There are a number of useful Agile approaches: Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Nexus, Kanban, LeSS, Crystal Clear, Lean Startup, Management 3.0, and others. We know hundreds of similar stories.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 34.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ?? Die blinde Befolgung des ursprünglichen Plans verstößt gegen Scrum-Prinzipien und das Agile Manifest.). Kein Work-in-Progress-Limit: Es gibt kein Limit für Work-in-Progress. 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns.

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Digite

APRIL 20, 2018

Continuing our theme of facilitating Scrum and Kanban, we’re honored to publish another guest blog post by Dave White on ‘Kanban and Scrum Together – Not So Fast’. Here Dave white has shared his thoughts on the article ‘Kanban and Scrum Together’ written by Steve Porter. KANBAN AND SCRUM TOGETHER – NOT SO FAST.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2023

Imagine that you’re part of an Agile or Scrum team and you frequently experience how your team struggles to navigate conflict effectively, or the Sprint Retrospective only results in meaningless improvements, or Sprints never have a predefined Sprint Goal. Kanban offers a great set of metrics to bring more data into the conversation.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 15, 2019

If there is one trend that has surpassed Agile in our profession over the last five years, I would say DevOps would be a good culprit. As we’ve seen an explosion of tools to implement CI/CD in our Scrum teams, we’ve also seen some of our Agile practices being challenged by this new reality. Kanban metrics.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

These are not just ideals but the foundation of Scrum that empowers teams to navigate the complexities of their projects with agility and integrity. Dive deeper into understanding and applying Scrum's lightweight, agile framework in your leadership practice. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Digite

JANUARY 21, 2018

In a recent post on a technical forum, a Dev manager had the question (paraphrased here) – My organization wants to operate in a Kanban way but maintain the structure of sprints and burn down charts to keep track of progress. This is a fairly common question a lot of Agile teams that are starting to look at Kanban have.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Kanban Tools. Kanban Tool is a good way to get started with agile development. Kanban Board provides lists with the option of limiting work in progress (WIP). The Kanban application also allows corporate users to host the program on their own servers. Certified Agile Coaching. Slow-speed.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2020

After all - this is what business agility is about isn't it? Teams I'm working with that are leveraging Kanban/Flow practices are more likely to think this way by the way). When they do that they realize that it might make sense to reduce the WIP because we're suddenly juggling more things while working. Virtual Happy Hours.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Kanban is Japanese for billboard and was developed by an industrial engineer at Toyota as a scheduling system to improve manufacturing efficiencies. Like its name in translation, Kanban looks like a series of cards on a board, which is used to visualize workflow. Kanban helps the project team work more efficiently together.

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