Lean, Agile, Visual Management from the Trenches
In the first post of this series on Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Transformation, we discussed the need for an integrated framework for managing a key bottleneck to enterprise transformation. We explored the merits of Portfolio Kanban to address the challenge in the second post.
Kanban helps represent the flow of work or the value stream of a project or process, clearly defining how work converts to value when completed.
We are excited to announce the release of SwiftEASe in the recently concluded SAFe Summit in Texas, held from 2 – 6 October 2017. With this Digité launches a new, tightly integrated tool for planning and managing the entire software delivery process based on the SAFe framework.
We have introduced two new enhancements with the SwiftKanban September update:
Creating Master List at the Board Level, Header Collapse for Similar Lanes, Mobile App 2.0.
In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences, David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. Some of these were already identified in his original blue book, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, some were identified later and put together in this post.
With the digital disruption of business models and whole industries, business executives and process owners are faced with a variety of transformation challenges. The need and pressure to deliver and demonstrate improved performance metrics, transparency and collaboration are greater than ever.
At the most fundamental level, ESP was necessary to provide a container for the collection of things we were teaching that were beyond kanban systems and beyond the scope of the Kanban Method. These were the things that enabled the optimal and effective use of kanban systems – topics such as: probabilistic forecasting and statistical analysis; qualitative risk assessment; real option theory; connecting strategy to operational mechanisms such as Kanban capacity allocation; and so forth. ESP represents a system of management for an entire professional services business.
We have introduced two new usability and functional enhancements with the SwiftKanban August update: Highlighting Card Fields, Analytics and Reports Filter.
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.
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…
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