Your path to business agility
Tommy is the Lean/Agile Coach at LeanKit, ensuring that we embody the values and principles behind our product. He's the director for the Agile Nashville user group and the Music City Agile conference, and frequently speaks at local and national events. Tommy is a 9-time Microsoft MVP. His Agile training series has been the top selling Agile videos on Safari Books Online for the last two years. Connect with him @tommynorman.
Recently, a group of my Planview AgilePlace coworkers and I were talking Kanban. The age-old debate surrounding the definitions of lead time and cycle time came up, and we all rolled our eyes a bit. The Lean community has rehashed this topic a million times already, but it seems we still can’t seem to reach...
At Planview AgilePlace, we have a very thorough process for quality assurance, but sometimes, issues with unforeseen or uncontrollable circumstances (such as DNS providers, hosting services, etc.) can result in a critical issue affecting our software, which can have a significant impact on our users. This is why we choose to stop the line when critical...
Inevitably, every process has a bottleneck: There is some step that has a lower capacity than the steps before or after it. This may be because there are fewer resources dedicated to performing this step, or because it requires more time to complete than the other steps in the process. Regardless, this bottleneck is the limiting...
