Throughput: Measuring Flow to Optimise Team Performance

Explains how Scrum teams can strategically allow unfinished work to flow across Sprint boundaries, enhancing throughput, responsiveness, and …

Learn to use flow metrics like WIP, cycle time, and throughput in Scrum to improve team efficiency, planning, forecasting, and workflow with practical …

Explores how effective capacity planning shifts focus from individual hours to system-level flow, using Lean and Agile principles to improve …

Learn how to use Kanban flow metrics in Scrum to improve value delivery, track progress, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement in …

Multitasking reduces team productivity. Learn how focusing on finishing tasks, limiting work in progress, and value-based prioritisation boosts …

Explains how Scrum Teams can use Kanban practices to optimise workflow, track flow metrics, and enhance transparency, efficiency, and continuous …

Limiting work in progress in Kanban helps teams focus, spot bottlenecks, maintain quality, and deliver value efficiently by ensuring a sustainable, …

Learn how Kanban’s pull-based system boosts workflow efficiency by visualising tasks, setting WIP limits, managing bottlenecks, and enabling …

Comprehensive reference outlining Kanban principles, practices, and metrics for optimising workflow, value delivery, and continuous improvement in …

Explains why story points and velocity can mislead Agile teams, and recommends focusing on throughput, cycle time, and customer value for effective …

Explains how Kanban can be integrated with Scrum to improve workflow visibility, provide key metrics, and enable continuous improvement in agile …

Explores the problems with story points in Agile, their impact on team behaviour, and why flow metrics offer a better way to measure progress and …

Learn how to avoid common Kanban mistakes by focusing on actionable metrics like WIP, cycle time, and throughput instead of vanity metrics for better …

Measuring individual cycle time overlooks team performance and system bottlenecks. Focus on lead time, throughput, and process efficiency to improve …

Explains why Story Points are subjective and unsuitable for comparing teams, and highlights objective metrics like throughput and value for measuring …

Learn how Kanban boosts transparency in software engineering, helping teams visualise workflows, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous …

Explains how to create reliable forecasts in agile projects by using flow metrics like cycle time and throughput, and shifting from project-based to …

Limiting work in progress boosts productivity by reducing multitasking, context switching, and bottlenecks, helping teams focus, finish tasks, and …

Explains how setting and adjusting Work-In-Progress (WIP) limits in Kanban helps teams manage workflow, prevent bottlenecks, and improve productivity …

Learn how to use Kanban metrics like cycle time and throughput to improve team predictability, make accurate forecasts, and deliver consistent project …

Explores how relying on story points and velocity can harm Agile teams, advocating for objective metrics like cycle time and throughput to boost …

Learn to use agile metrics, flow analytics, and Monte Carlo simulation to improve project predictability, risk management, and data-driven decisions …

Learn how Kanban uses data-driven insights and probabilistic forecasting to optimise workflows, improve delivery, and enhance transparency across any …