In No More Iterations I showed our 1 st attempt at a kanban board . Now that we have a little more experience I'd like to show you where we are now and where we stopped on the way. Here is where we started. Columns for backlog, blocked, in progress and done. Notice the large number of items "in-progress...

Throughput and velocity are ways of measuring how fast a team can do work. Knowing how fast a team is going allows the team and their stakeholders to know when something is going to be done. What is Velocity Velocity ( http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/velocity.html ) is a commonly used metric...

In my initial post No More Iterations I mentioned that estimating was a factor in the change we were making. Specifically: Story size was difficult to estimate and kept crossing iteration boundaries. The programmers really didn't see the value of estimating stuff they weren't familiar with and in our...