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.

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?

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.

Improve delivery predictability by learning how to right-size work using cycle time data and Cycle Time Distribution (CTD) charts. Discover how workflow variability, uncertainty, and wait times impact delivery, and why traditional sizing approaches often fail in complex, AI, and data-driven environments.

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.