FYK: Use Kanban Practices to Make Meetings Less Painful
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FYK: Use Kanban Practices to Make Meetings Less Painful
Fixing Your Kanban
In this video, Ryan Ripley, Dan Vacanti and Todd Miller discuss how to use Kanban principles and practices to get the most out of team meetings such as Daily scrums or standups.
Using Metrics to Manage Workflow
- The official Kanban guide outlines four basic metrics that teams need to pay attention to in order to do Kanban effectively.
- One of these metrics is work item age, which provides an early signal that something is not flowing through the process as it should be.
- Teams should review work item age every day at a Daily scrum or standup meeting.
- During the meeting, the team should focus on tackling items that are taking too long to complete.
Amplifying What's Happening in Your System
- While the Kanban guide does not prescribe a daily meeting, actively managing items in your workflow requires regular check-ins.
- Regular check-ins are especially important if you're using scrum and want to overlay Kanban on top of it.
Making Meetings Effective
- To make meetings effective, it's important for team members to show up engaged and ready to participate.
- Instead of using prescribed questions like in traditional scrum meetings, teams can use metrics like work item age as a starting point for discussion.
- The goal of any meeting should be to actively manage items in progress and plan for the next 24 hours.
Monitoring Aging in Your Daily Meeting
In this section, the speakers discuss how monitoring aging can be a powerful concept to implement in daily meetings and help improve flow. They recommend checking out the Kanban guide for more information.
Implementing Aging Monitoring
- Monitoring aging is a practice that can be implemented immediately to master flow.
- It is recommended to monitor aging in daily meetings as it is an objective measure of whether an item is aging too much or not.
- The speakers suggest that real data examples and more specific contextual examples could be discussed in future episodes.
Conclusion
- The speakers conclude by stating that there are no further comments on this topic.