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When is a kanban tool not a kanban tool?

7 February 2018 by Robert Falkowitz

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An indicator of the increasing popularity of kanban is the number of software tools and online services that claim kanban functionality. For those practitioners who have seen the tremendous benefits of kanban, this should be a gratifying development. But what does it really mean for a tool to support or to enable kanban? And what […]

Filed Under: featured, Kanban, Tools Tagged With: blockage, class of service, deterministic management, flow, kanban board, Little's Law, muri, priority, probabilistic management, pulling work, pushing work, queue length, team autonomy, Theory of Constraints, tools selection, value stream, visualization, WIP limit, work item

Managing People Resource Liquidity

12 April 2016 by Robert Falkowitz 5 Comments

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What is resource liquidity? There is often a lack of depth in skills in a department. There may be only one person having the knowledge or skills required to perform a task, who thereby becomes a bottleneck. The immediate availability of a person to perform a task is the liquidity of the personnel in the […]

Filed Under: Kanban, Organization Structure Tagged With: assets, competences, liabilities, liquidity, Little's Law, people resource liquidity, planning, resource liquidity, skills, training

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