Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum

For some, sterile is a good thing; it means safe and clean. For others, it's kind of lacking in fun. Kanban practitioners can often forget the human side; virtually beating people over the head with work item aging charts, and in doing so they "lose the dressing room".

Work Item types are optional in Kanban Guide as per https://kanbanguides.org. In Kanban Guide, a Service Level Expectation (SLE) is a must for a Kanban board. How about having an SLE per work item type? What could be the upsides and downsides of that?

User experience research (UX) when done in the same team as delivery is a nice way to go. User Interface(UI) work is only a subset for UX. If your UX folks are only producing UI widgets, someone has "lost the plot". Check out Giff Constable's Truth Curve at https://giffconstable.com/2013/06/the... .  "Dual-track agile" is about blending discovery and delivery and lots of collaboration and understa...

What are the upsides and downs of a blocked column on a Kanban board?

What is the direction of travel? Is it the same as a vision? What is a product goal? What is a sprint goal?

Continuous improvement is central to agility. People often feel overwhelmed about retrospective improvements. How about making peace with what we can actually do? How might we improve gradually without it hurting so much? How might we reduce guilt?

Capacity is a subjective thing. Effort estimation is more useful when we're not dependent on others because in that case, we would have less waiting time. As long as our work items are not elephant-sized, can we just use throughput to specify our capacity? To get a question featured in a daily flow live stream/podcast, please leave a voicemail at https://anchor.fm/dailyflow/message or Whatsapp +44...