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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 18: Chapter 18—Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 18: Chapter 18—Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity

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Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message, “where is chapter 18?” I nearly responded right after chapter 17 but a little voice told me to check. Low and behold, I had not addressed Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity, otherwise known as…

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 15: Chapter 16 - Introduction to Execution Management Signals

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 15: Chapter 16 – Introduction to Execution Management Signals

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This chapter spends time describing and using Critical-Chain Project Management (CCPM) as a tool generating signals that help organizations control the flow of work in real-time and with a forward bias. I was introduced to CCPM early in my career (along with a number of other scheduling and planning tools). While I have not used these techniques as wholes recently  I have…

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 13: Chapter 14 - Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 13: Chapter 14 – Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards

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I find Chapter 14 useful in a book of useful chapters. In this chapter, Steve and Daniel explain the foreshadowed idea of full-kitting and introduce two different versions of kanban boards.

I am a big fan of the idea of the definition of ready. I have written several columns on the topic (for example, Ready to Developfrom 2015, in which you will note that my definition is much…

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 12: Chapter 13—Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 12: Chapter 13—Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments

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Those that control work entry, control the health of a team, and at a product level, the health of the organization. Messrs. Tendon and Doiron discuss portfolio and work entry in Chapter 13 of  Tame your Work Flow. Putting my biases on the table I believe that Reinertsen (Product Development Flow) and Leffingwell et al. (Scaled Agile Framework Enterprise) have advanced the…

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 4: Chapter 3 - Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 4: Chapter 3 – Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact

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Self-knowledge is valuable to keep yourself reigned in, I really think Little’s Law is important. This week I needed to make sure I did not go overboard in discussing the ramifications of the theorem (I will include links at the end of this week’s re-read for those who want to go into depth). Chapter 3 of Tame your Work Flow is incredibly important for understanding the…

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 3: Chapter 1 - The Power of Explicit Mental Models

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 3: Chapter 1 – The Power of Explicit Mental Models

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Today we tackle Chapter 1 in our re-read of Tame your Work Flow by Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron. Chapter 1 lays out the four flows which the book explores in detail and begins a deep dive into the power of mental models. The Chapter also touches on one of the great evils of modern times — multitasking (I say that with no attempt at hyperbole).   (more…)

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Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 2: Prologue

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 2: Prologue

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Today we begin in our re-read of Tame your Work Flow by Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron in earnest with the Prologue.  The prologue introduces concepts and provides a bridge for readers to this book from the Goal by Eli Goldratt and Steve Tendon, and Wolfram Müller’s book Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban. 

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SPaMCAST 599 - Tameflow, The Third Way, A Conversation with Steve Tendon

SPaMCAST 599 – Tameflow, The Third Way, A Conversation with Steve Tendon

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SPaMCAST 599 will feature my conversation with Steve Tendon. Steve and I talked about his Tameflow books, the genesis of the framework, the Theory of Constraints, and of course Herbie. Steve provides several profound pieces of wisdom for increasing value. (more…)

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