Making Work Visible
About this book
DeGrandis names five thieves of time being too much work in progress, unknown dependencies, unplanned work, conflicting priorities and neglected work. Each gets a chapter covering how to spot it, how to make it visible on a board, and the specific countermeasures. Practical on board design, work item types and the metrics that expose each thief, and written for anyone whose work queue keeps overflowing.
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- Tracking adaptive progressBurn charts, information radiators and the small set of measures that tell a sponsor where an adaptive project stands, without requiring the team to produce a parallel report.
- Kanban and flowVisualisation of the work, a limit on how much is started at once, and management of the queues between stages, which together control delivery where a fixed cycle does not suit the work.
- Removing blockersWhat counts as an impediment, why most of them are organisational and few are technical, and how a log turns a run of bad days into a visible pattern.