The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). Maybe you’ve been told it can help you better understand the flow of work, identify bottlenecks, and get a sense how long work items will take to complete. It sounds intriguing, but…how exactly do you read it? What is it trying to tell you?
Is your team losing its way during backlog refinement? Does refinement contain “hidden” work difficult to account for? Is a Definition of Ready weakly applied? Do you even have one? Borrowing lessons from the Kanban method, we look how to visualize a team’s backlog refinement process using a backlog refinement board.
We're thrilled to sit down with Mark Grove, an accomplished agile coach and foremost expert on the Kanban method. As an agile thought leader, Mark has dedicated his career to helping teams embrace an agile mindset to enhance performance and deliver continuous value.
Imagine you are asked to sit in on a team’s sprint review and retrospective. The team has been having difficulty forming and the Scrum Master has asked you to observe the team dynamics during these two sessions. Are you simply going to watch what’s going on or is there more you can do?
Imagine you were hired to provide consulting assistance for a new team just starting out with Kanban. The team has been struggling with their implementation and is looking forward to your expert guidance, support, and advice. What comments would you make? What thoughtful questions would you ask?
The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). Maybe you’ve been told it can help you better understand the flow of work, identify bottlenecks, and get a sense how long work items will take to complete. It sounds intriguing, but…how exactly do you read it? What is it trying to tell you?
Visualize your work! That's the first rule of Kanban, and in this episode, we examine how this rule can be applied to Scrum teams to help them become more efficient.
Holding post-sprint retrospectives is an important component for the continued growth of agile coaches and teams. Doing so allows coaches and teams to learn from the their mistakes and improve upon them in future sprints.
In this part lecture, part workshop presentation, we took a closer look at what a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) is, how it’s constructed, and, most importantly, how to interpret what you’re observing.
The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Maybe you’ve been told it can help you better understand the flow of work, identify bottlenecks, and get a sense how long work items take to complete. It sounds intriguing, but…how exactly do you read it? What is it trying to tell you? And… Could the CFD be more helpful than a burndown chart?
In this part lecture, part workshop presentation, we’ll take a closer look at what a CFD is, how it’s constructed, and, most importantly, how to interpret what you’re observing. Being able to identify patterns in your CFD is a valuable skill to better understand how work flows across your Scrum or Kanban board.