Chuck LEAN Business Consultant
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You and your team are just five steps away from visualizing the team’s work, limiting work in process, measuring the team’s effectiveness, and beginning a habit of continuous improvement.
Download this free guide and learn:
- How to map your team’s workflow
- How to put work on the Kanban board
- How your team can use the Kanban board
- How to limit work in progress
- How to measure flow and what levers you can pull to improve it
What is your experience with a Kanban Roadmap?
What pros and cons did you find?
In my experience:
YOU WILL NEED
Your team. On the whiteboard, data collected from the lastthree to four weeks since you began recording metrics on theback of the cards.
TIME
Do this during your weekly retrospective.
ACTIVITYAs soon as you’ve finished the exercise in step four, takethe time during every weekly retrospective to record data on theback of your cards for blockers, start date, completed date,throughput and lead time.
AT EACH WEEKLY RETROSPECTIVE, CALCULATE ANDRECORD:» Throughput: the number of cards completed this week» Lead time for each card (completed date and start date)» Average lead time for this week» Cards completed with > 0 blocked days» Total blocked days» A list of places where cards were blocked
Tally the above for three to four weeks before beginning this exercise
What is your experience?