SwiftKanban/ SwiftESP for AKTs and KCPs
Last week, my colleague Navin and I had the pleasure and – indeed – the honor of meeting some of the best minds in Europe at the Kanban Leadership Retreat at Mayrhofen, Austria!
June 28, 2017
Digité Blog
Lean, Agile, Visual Management from the Trenches
Allocating WIP Limits for a Kanban System
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!
June 26, 2017
How Cognitive Overload Impacts Productivity?
When I first arrived in the US twenty years back I was “blown-away” by a few intense experiences that are still etched fresh in my mind. One such overwhelming experience was when I entered Wal-Mart for the first time. I had never seen or imagined anything like this before. For every item, there were so many brands, packages, and choices. Buying even insignificant stuff was a complex and stressful experience.
June 23, 2017
Flow Efficiency: A Great Metric you Probably Aren’t Using
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.
When we look at improving those lead times, we often focus on how to improve the active work we do for the requests we receive.
June 20, 2017
SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – June 2017
With the release of SwiftKanban June update, we have introduced three new usability and functional enhancements. Settings Navigator, Guided Tours & Pinning the Toolbar.
June 12, 2017
Agile Release Train (ART)
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?
May 26, 2017
How to Eliminate Muda From Your Kanban System?
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.
May 19, 2017
SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – May 2017
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!
May 15, 2017
Making Bulk Updates on the Kanban Board
Last year, we identified this issue in the card hierarchy linkage feature. Adding parent and child relationships was a bit of a pain as the user had to navigate away from the board to create or edit a card hierarchy. So we introduced the parent/ child bulk link option, using a panel at the bottom of the user’s screen while they are on the Board view and provided the option to add parent/ child links in a single click.
May 5, 2017
SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – Apr 2017
We have released another update for SwiftKanban this month, which comes with several new features and enhancements. Here are some of the highlights of this release: Bulk Card Operations Gets Bigger and Better, Card via URL, Flag’s Name in Comments, Tracking Due Dates and Flags Gets Easier with the Home View, New Web Service – getBoardCards and much more.
April 13, 2017
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