Visualising is the first step towards understanding, which is the first step towards coming up with sound improvement ideas.
Rodrigo Yoshima is bang on when he says that visualising current workloads is a really important way of managing expectations. And that it’s very very difficult for information workers when most offices look like this:
If we all worked like this
it would be so much easier (apart from the space involved).
This is only the first level of benefit for Kanban, but it’s a huge one in its own right.
Martin Burns
Services Director at CA Inc (formerly Rally)
Previously: Leader of software delivery portfolios in large scale orgs.
Specialism: Transforming complex delivery organisations to be more Lean/Agile.
Mindset: Continuous Improvement Obsessive
Specialism: Transforming complex delivery organisations to be more Lean/Agile.
Mindset: Continuous Improvement Obsessive
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