Kanban Practices

Explore resources to get started with fundamental flow practices

Flow Metrics for Startups
Adam Bullied, COO at Circus, joins to discuss the use of flow metrics in at startup environment. Adam shares his experiences with implementing flow metrics, and covers the real-world benefits he has realized through visualizing and actively managing work in progress. 
Introduction to Flow Metrics
When Will it Be Done?
Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
Principles of Product Development Flow
The Kanban Pocket Guide
Flow Metrics For Scrum Teams
Taming the chaos for managers: Learning to swim
Will We Make It — Cars, Maps and Software Projects (Continuous Reforecasting)
The Kanban Guide
Blocked cards: avoiding unnecessary drama
First, decide what not to do
Little's Law
Theory 101: Thinking Processes of TOC
Put Your focus on Focus
The Art of Queuing
Theory 101: Five Focusing Steps of TOC
Make your visualization about the work, not the workers
Optimal Operating Capacity (…WIP Limits?)
Ticket Size Does Not Matter
Benefits of WIP Limits
Designing Your Board to Focus on flow
Slack is not a dirty word: How ‘slack’ can improve your products
Basketball, Baseball and Agile Teams
If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… Systems Thinking
Portfolio Kanban
Can you afford not to limit work in progress?
Scaling without scaling
Kanban Pocket Guide
Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player
The Power of Relationships: Taking the first step