Route to Enterprise Scale Agility
Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. Here are some interesting highlights from there.
August 14, 2017
With the release of SwiftKanban July update, we have introduced new functional enhancements, Enhanced Card Designer, Exporting Cards Hierarchy, Comment on Multiple cards Simultaneously. Read more…
I have seen people focus a lot on what the WIP limit should be for a Value Stream stage of a Kanban system. However, once the WIP limit is known, I haven’t seen much thought going into where to put those WIP limits. Hence, this blog!
One of the questions that working professionals get asked the most is “When will my request be completed?” In order to answer, we often look at lead time metrics to give a predictable answer. Looking at lead times over a period of time can give us a pretty high confidence level in setting delivery expectations. It is a strategy for predictability.
With the release of SwiftKanban June update, we have introduced three new usability and functional enhancements. Settings Navigator, Guided Tours & Pinning the Toolbar.
The concept of Agile Release Train is central to understanding the constructs of SAFe and to implement them. So, what is an ART? Is it a set of teams working in tandem with each other following a common release calendar and Sprint timeline? 
The main objectives of the Toyota Production system, which is one of the primary sources of inspiration for Kanban for knowledge work, were to get rid of overburden (muri) and inconsistency (mura), and eliminate waste (muda) from your system. 
The SwiftKanban update for May 2017 comes with several new features and enhancements. Here are the highlights of this update: Discard and Abort capturing in SwiftKanban, Card default attributes made configurable, Estimates as UoM in Planning Release Capacity and Burndown Chart & More!
