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Portfolio Kanban and Doing the Right Thing
There’s an ongoing discussion that I occasionally refresh with Markus Andrezak on usefulness of applying Kanban to manage portfolio and generally to the process of figuring out which products should...
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Happiness Index as Team Sustainability Metric
One of the discussions that happened during Don Reinertsen’s product development workshop was the one about absorbing turbulence. Absorbing turbulence is a metaphor for how well a team deals with...
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Minimal Indispensable Feature Set
Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is such a nice idea. Let’s build something that is as small as possible and at the same time viable, which translates to “provides value and thus make sense to build it.”...
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Economic Value of Slack Time
I ranted on 100% utilization a few years ago already. Let me add another thread to that discussion. We have a ton of everyday stories that show how brain-dead the idea of maximizing utilization is....
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Story Points and Velocity: The Good Bits
You get what you measure. The old truth we keep forgetting about so often. Story Points and Velocity One relevant context to remember this is when we measure progress of project teams. The set that...
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The Cost of Too Many Projects in Portfolio
I argued against multitasking a number of times. In fact, not that long ago I argued against it in the context of portfolio management too. Let me have another take on this from a different...
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Portfolio Kanban Board
One thing that I learned quickly when I started experimenting with Portfolio Kanban is that a classic, flow-driven board design isn’t particularly good in vast majority of cases. Board Designs Long...
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Context Switching: The Good and the Bad
Multitasking is bad. We know that. Sort of. Yet still, we keep fooling ourselves that we can do efficiently a few things at the same time. When I talk about limiting work in progress I point a number...
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Don’t Limit Work in Progress
I’m a long-time fan of visual management. Visualizing work helps to gather low-hanging fruits: it makes the biggest obstacles instantly visible and thus helps to facilitate the improvements. By the...
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Portfolio Management: Role of Autonomy
I’m a huge fan of Real Options. Along with Cynefin, it is one of the models that can be very universally applied in different domains. No wonder that some time ago I proposed application of Real...
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