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Step three of The Kanban Roadmap: How to Get Started in 5 Steps As a systems-thinking methodology, Kanban calls for team members to take collective responsibility for team priorities. Rich conversations about the work are a must-have. They help the team discover bottlenecks, resolve issues, focus on flow, and continuously improve their process. To facilitate these...
Do you know which cards are stuck and require attention, what’s due within the next week/month/quarter, or what cards are assigned to you? These are just a few of questions that can be answered with Planview AgilePlace’s advanced filter functionality. Upcoming filter enhancements will make it even easier for you to get a focused view of...
Setting explicit process policies is the special sauce for the successful implementation of Kanban. Yet in many ways it’s also the least understood step of The Kanban Method. For many people, the term “policies” conjures up images of employee manuals and handbooks. And let’s be honest, while these types of organizational documents are necessary, they’re not...
Enhancements have been rolling in over the past few months. Here’s a rundown of some of the latest features, including: Mass card updates Auto-subscribe settings Quick card adds Mobile app improvements Update Multiple Cards at Once The new multi-select option (Ctrl/Cmd + click) allows you to update multiple cards on a board at once. Remove cards that are no longer...
One of the core practices of the Kanban Method is to make process policies explicit. This helps team members and stakeholders understand what’s expected, thereby reducing confusion and enabling greater process consistency. Until the mechanism of a process is made explicit, it can be difficult to engage in meaningful discussion about how to improve it. Without a common...
Pulling Planview AgilePlace work items into your Personal Calendar app Need to keep track of work that has due dates? You can set up a feed so that your Planview AgilePlace tasks with start and/or end dates appear in a personal calendar like your mobile phone calendar app. Subscribing to an iCal feed is equivalent...
Find out why I, co-author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and The DevOps Cookbook, recommend Kanban to improve the practice of IT. I discuss how to solve common IT problems — including developer due date performance, availability, security and compliance — using DevOps patterns of work. Kanban boards appear prominently throughout the The Phoenix Project as...
Please note that Drill-Through relationships have now been renamed as Connections in Planview AgilePlace. Connections establish parent-child relationships between Planview AgilePlace Boards. These multi-level hierarchies help you track and structure your work to the right level of detail, making it easier to not only visualize high-level initiatives but also dig deeper into the implementation details. Here’s what to look for in the...
Kanban and continuous delivery are technical practices that go hand in hand. The goal of continuous delivery is to rapidly, reliably and repeatedly deliver new features and bug fixes at low risk and with minimal overhead. The goal of Kanban is to optimize the flow of work through incremental change. Both approaches share the common objective of delivering...
Flow means to “move along in a steady, continuous stream.” In knowledge work, the ability to visualize and manage your flow is essential to achieving faster and more consistent delivery. It allows you to understand your capacity, easily identify problems and improve that flow. In a system designed to manage the flow of tangible deliverables,...
