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Helen Meek
October 4, 2023

Tickets Have To Be The Same Size, Right?

Long story short, it’s a myth… You got time for the long story? The key thing is your board needs to flow and the work on the board needs to be valuable to our customers. It is impossible to cut them down to all the same size without lots of extra work or by making […]

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Helen Meek
September 20, 2023

Analyse Your Unplanned Work!

‘So much unplanned work just hits us and we have to deal with it! ‘ This is a phrase I often here from teams when discussing the flow of their work. This team just seemed to accept that this is part of life and crack on. But this was not an isolated incident, and as […]

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Helen Meek
September 11, 2023

Is There A Goal In Kanban?

At least once a week I hear someone say something like ‘Our people like Scrum as it gives them a goal to drive towards, in Kanban there is no goal and they feel like they are on a hamster wheel’ What a load of rubbish!! There is absolutely no reason you cannot have a goal. […]

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Helen Meek
September 4, 2023

We Don’t Estimate In Kanban – Fact or Myth?

This is one of the great debates! But the answer is not always black or white in reality. Let’s look at the value we get from an estimation process: For me, these three things are the most important pieces. The understanding, alignment and management of things that could impede us. The fourth thing we get […]

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Helen Meek
August 14, 2023

Expedites Are Bad For Your System!

I play the ‘Get Kanban’ game a lot as part of my Kanban System Design Class and it never ceases to amaze me how reactive people are to expedite a ticket for whatever reason. This is also reflective of what I see in real life. The team are busy working away and then a ticket […]

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Helen Meek
August 8, 2023

Establishing Work Item Types

Understanding your demand and capability is a key part of Kanban, we can then use work-in-progress limits (WIP) to control the flow of work. But first, we truly have to understand the type of work our system is doing. Not all work is created equal! Not everything is a story, let alone the same size. […]

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Helen Meek
December 19, 2019

Agile Coaching Exchange 80th Session– 7 Years old!!

Last night we hosted the Agile Coaching Exchanges 80th Session. When you think about it, that’s 7 years! Pretty much the whole time I have worked for Ripplerock. We took the opportunity to celebrate last night along side our usual festive fun. Here are some fun facts about the ACE from our slides last night […]

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Helen Meek
December 18, 2019

Wheel of Retrospection

I was asked to run a retrospective this week for a team that needed something a little more light hearted. Been a tough kind of month! Most of the teams in my current client have a distributed element, be it people in another location or flexibility to home work.  So I needed to come up […]

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Helen Meek
December 16, 2019

The Mega Dojo ..

I have been running a coaching programme with my latest client for about 7 months now and it has been going down very well.  These aren’t new things as I have been running them for a while in my previous places.  Take a look at a previous blog on the subject if you want to […]

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Helen Meek
December 16, 2019

Christmas Retrospective – Pass the Parcel

Tis the season to be jolly..fa la la la laaaa, laaa la la la! It is certainly starting to feel like Christmas now and it makes me want to do really fun things.   Christmas is my absolute favourite as everyone is happy and everything is twinkly and sparkly. At the weekend I went festive wreath […]

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