knowledge through iteration
This is a short primmer to connect CoD ( Cost of Delay ), and WSJF together. WSJF is a great tool to prioritize items in your backlog. It outputs a number that can then be used to quickly sort the items as a good first round prioritization. You will still need to apply dependencies and…
What is a TOM? It is an acronym created and taught by the Digital Product Transformation and Leadership Coach, Jason D. Jones. It is a clarification for a type of metrics that can be used to directly correlate to value, customer satisfaction, customer experience, and quality for starters. The last requirement for a metric to…
Whether starting a new project in an old PM position, or taking over an existing existing project under your wing, there comes the time for employee accountability and task clarification. In my opinion, your first and most powerful weapon to battle against project dragging and outright chaos, is the Kanban board. Yes, straight out of…
In part 2 of ‘Kanban Boards – A Beginner’s tutorial’, I will go over adding status columns ( control ) for more clarity, flow control metrics ( bottle neck detection ), and Task Swarming ( resource management ). In Kanban Boards – Part 1 – Introduction, I go over how Kanban Boards provide a simple,…
In the modern day of agile and dev-ops, or pretending to do agile and dev-ops, many of us are still pretending when it comes to performance metrics. We recite the make believe slogan of team: ‘it is a team success, a team fail’, but if we truly believe this, why are many organizations still measuring…