Questions tagged [kanban]
Use the Kanban tag for project management questions about how to implement Kanban as a methodology. This tag is not for questions about software recommendations. However, questions about how to integrate a specific software solution or tool as it relates to Kanban is on topic.
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How is Little's Law applied in Kanban?
I have found some formulas of Little's Law in relation to the application in Kanban, but it still makes little sense for me.
Two quotations from different sources.
Average Cycle Time = Average Work ...
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For what type of projects Kanban and Scrum better adjusted compared to each other?
For which type of projects Kanban is better suited for?
For which type of projects Scrum is better suited for?
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How does “Visualize the workflow” in Kanban differ from “Monitor, measure and optimize workflow/Manage flow”?
"Visualize the workflow" and "Manage flow" have somewhat similar explanations.
What are the artifacts in Kanban?
http://www.everydaykanban.com/what-is-kanban/
While the " Visualize the workflow" ...
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Why is “limiting Work In Progress” the cornerstone of Kanban?
I have been studying the Kanban documentation
http://www.everydaykanban.com/what-is-kanban/
and I stumbled upon the "Limiting Work-in-Progress" practice.
It is said in this paragraph that "Limiting ...
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Scrum based High-tech Product Development with a very mixed Group (Seniors & Novices)
I'm already a (certified) Scrum Master of a software Development Team and I'm going to/have to establish an agile product development process (Scrum is favored) with another group with four engineers.
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Who can change WIP limit in DoW when urgent work emerges?
I had a following question in my PSK assessment.
When using Scrum with Kanban, who can change the WIP limits in the Definition of Workflow when a high priority work emerges from the Sprint?
Product ...
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Best Way to Manage Different Types of Work in one Board?
Problem
My team consists of software developers and UX designers. Their workflow is different--UX has different steps than a pure development task has. What's the best way to manage this on one Kanban ...
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How is a smaller batch size in Kanban increasing performance?
I have read that a small batch size is executed faster (obviously) than a bigger one.
I have also read that small batches are delivered faster, in relative terms, because they foster a more ...
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Which flow metric is used to forecast - 'how many items will be done for the date'?
I had following question in my PSK assessment.
Which flow metric is used to forecast - how many work items will be done for the date'?
Throughput
Work Item Age (WIA)
Cycle Time (CT)
Work in Progress ...
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How to make Agile metrics useful to stakeholders and project managers
I have started using Actionable Agile lately. This tool is essentially used for Agile Metrics e.g. Cycle time, throughput, monte-carlo predictability etc.
Does anyone know how I can translate this ...
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Rolling Boards (Kanban) while doing Continuous Delivery
We are trying to do CD where we have a sprint per release on each board. So we are working off a board, and when we either get all the tickets to Review, or just decide to pull a release, we make a ...
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Does the Kanban require teams to work vertically sliced user stories or can we use small technical tasks
I am just revising Anderson's Kanban book where he discusses 'input types' and it doesn't seem like he prescribes whether the team work with vertically sliced user stories - something which has been a ...
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What is swarming?
While the term "swarming" is used quite commonly, I found it hard to find a definition for it.
Different swarming approaches seem to range from "do pair programming, if otherwise the WIP limits would ...
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How to handle large backlog
Recently I am asked to inspect the Kanban system our company is following and I am having some difficulties to fix it. I am working in a startup company and in software department there are 5 ...
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How should Scrum and Kanban teams track Continuous Improvement activities?
What mechanism can Scrum or Kanban teams use to track Continuous Improvement activities - something which can also involve cross-team collaboration?
e.g. CI: Improve Product Management by reducing ...
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How to get a BI team to work in vertical slices e.g. User Stories
I am an Agile Coach for a bunch of Business Intelligence Engineers and Data Scientists.
There is generally speaking 2 different work item types which they undertake:
User facing reports and ...
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How to create JIRA Kanban based on ticket/card reporter?
I want to create another Kanban board in my project where the columns are people names (we have 4 analysts in the team) and in the column shows all the cards created (reported) by each analyst, so we ...
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Is it proper for a kanban board (process) to involve several teams or just one?
Your org goes agile.
You decide to make every process explicit. My understanding is that each process is a kanban board. One organization will have many processes and thus have many boards with ...
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Does a user story need to be small and why, when using Kanban
User Stories are generally written using INVEST method; the E meaning easier estimation which does not apply to Kanban and S meaning small enough to fit into iteration which also does not apply to ...
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How long will it take for epics and stories to exit our Kanban system
We have only just recently starting using Kanban, so we have little or no predictability data about how long epics and stories take to move through our system.
How do we give the business an idea of ...
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In our Kanban system how do we stop epics spawning endless stories
We have designed our system with the follow steps:
Backlog (epics)
Ready for discovery (epics)
In discovery (epics)
Ready to break into stories / 3 amigos (epics->stories)
Ready for development (...
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Is it more effective to create a Trello board for each new sprint or have one long-lived sprint board?
Our software department consists of a single-product team of three developers and two higher-ups with domain knowledge whose roles on our team are similar to that of a product owner.
We have ...
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WIP Limits broken by low-priority Stories - What to do?
Current Situation
Small team of 4 developers and 2.2 QAs.
I'm trying to implement work in progress (WIP) limits.
There are currently many (37) Stories waiting for QA (also 22 currently being QA'd, ...
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How to manage development tasks and bugs/issues in a small fully-remote development team?
How to manage development tasks and bugs/issues in a small fully-remote development team?
I've just hired two developers so I need to put a system in place for managing development tasks, reporting ...
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Measuring performance in kanban
Let's assume I decide to manage a certain project using Kanban. This happens to be a customer service kind of project where the dev team delivers continuous improvement so Kanban is definitely well ...
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How to shape the demand with Kanban?
I'm working with team working in a service delivery model. They are getting requests from the rest of a rather large organization. They don't have too much contact with the business side. We are ...
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How does a Portfolio Kanban look like?
I'd like to setup a Portfolio Kanban to be used at a higher level in my project and I'm not sure how it should look like. What is the key information it should contain?
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Issues with multiple unrelated projects on the same kanban backlog
Recently we've started an experiment that everyone on the team (six devs) pull the top item off the backlog regardless of what it is. For context we maintain eight existing services that compose of ...
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What is the ongoing value of the Kanban board to the developers as opposed to management
I want to understand what others believe is the ongoing value of a Kanban board to the development team
I got into an argument recently at my small company because
A) My dev team isn't properly ...
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Kanban - Simple Backlog Forecasting?
Does anyone know if it's possible with Jira to cover the following scenario?
The team estimates the items in its backlog in story points
The backlog is prioritized
The backlog is handled like a Fifo ...
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Lean Kanban without estimates or time logging
I work in academia (research). Tasks are varied and almost always involve delving into topics that produce more tasks when you are more informed. A pull system seems appropriate rather than an ...
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Does SDLC process can be applied to Kanban columns?
I was a bit confused to determine column on the Kanban. Whether can be determined freely or are there separate rules? can we convert SDLC process to Kanban columns like Waterfall's (Planning, Defining,...
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Appropriate Structure to Manage Diverse IT Sustainment & Development Projects?
I am a consulting manager leading over 25 personnel to manage the infrastructure on a Navy Base. The team is currently segmented into Scrum Teams with:
5 SW Devs doing bug fixes and rewriting ...
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In jira, am I approaching kanban wrong?
Let me start by saying I'm a developer, not a PM - so I'm potentially misunderstanding some fundamentals here. Apologies if so.
I have created a jira project, I believe kanban made sense (we need the ...
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Should I word backlog items as what's broken or what work needs to be done?
We have a software project that we are trying to implement some basic project management for and we're starting simple, just using a Trello kanban board to track bugs/feature requests. I am beginning ...
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Task estimation for PMs who are not developers
While working Agile, how can a PM estimate a task when he/she is not a developer?
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Standup Frequency & Content for Kanban
I have started the practice of Kanban (with JIRA) in my team that handles customer issues for heterogeneous products. As part of this we have daily standups to discuss:
1. How is the flow
2. Any ...
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Is a mid sprint check-in/catch-up a good idea
Scenario: With scrum teams doing a daily stand-up to inform team of progress (yesterday and today) and any impediments. I wonder sometimes do they actually bring up impediments, concerns or issues. ...
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Kanban or Scrum for tough deadline project?
Sorry in advance if my question looks silly, but it's bothered me for quite a long time and haven't found the answer to it yet.
I work in an IT outsource company and due to specifics of my job I ...
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In Kanban, when do you pull a card into your PM analysis column?
Our kanban board has a familiar form: Backlog > analysis > QA/Dev Review > Ready to go > in Dev ... etc.
A topic of discussion found within the team (and across the company) is when should stories ...
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Kanban: How can I handle column limits when some members work at night?
On my team, we're starting to work with kanban and have column limits applied. One of our members will work frequently work in the evenings or at night and is expressing that the column limits prevent ...
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Which columns exist on your task board?
Currently, weāre implementing new processes at our company essentially from scratch, but there are a lot of opinions on which columns should be on the task board. As the one responsible for this ...
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How to write a summary for a user story?
I'm working hard on user stories and it is paying off, but something itches.
We use Jira, but the problem is that from above the backlog seems clumsy.
We need to write summary for user story so that ...
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Which is a best suitable agile methodology for ongoing products? [closed]
We are a product based company. Which is a best suitable agile methodology for ongoing products? Its like we have to keep improving our products to stay competitive. Looks like its never-ending thing.
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How do you use kanban in an environment that requires a ton of waiting?
I work in government and our department has a communication problem. I'm trying to use a kanban board to solve this. I went ahead and started using a kanban board for just myself so I could figure out ...
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How should we implement and keep track of recurring or intangible retrospective action items?
Our Product/Tech team has been transitioning towards Agile project management in the last year or so, and we hold daily standups, weekly planning meetings and biweekly retrospective meetings. We also ...
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How do you combine Waterfall with Kanban?
Our team has a wide variety of work item types. Some of the work we do is related to projects, some is operational, some we generate internally ourselves.
In order to be reactive to the needs of the ...
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Software Dev Team; Managing Task Across Multiple Projects in a Manufacturing Plant with no Deadlines or Set Features?
I work on an very small software development team of 3 (remote 'full' timer, a full-time developer on-site, and myself as 'lead' on-site) in a "small" aerospace manufacturing plant of about 300 ...
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Different Releases in the same Jira Kanban board?
We are a development team and we use a Kanban board (Jira) with different swimlines.
We have some tasks who are code related and other task who are not code related like investigations, query, ...
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How to sync work in small software team
We are a small software team with 4 members:
one Software Architect that gathers requirements and writes Requirements document and Specifications document
one Designer that designs visual wireframes ...
