Tag: Tool

Kent Beck's model for understanding how products move through Explore, Expand, and Extract phases, each requiring different strategies, risk tolerances, and investment approaches.

A visualization that makes WIP buildup, bottlenecks, and throughput trends visible at a glance.

A structured front door for work requests that prevents unfiltered demand from overwhelming teams.

Practices for keeping a backlog short, groomed, and honest about what will actually get built.

A structured rubric for scoring priorities across Necessity, Outcome Clarity, Impact, Confidence, and Effort.

A visual framework for working backward from outcomes through opportunities to testable solutions.

A recurring team practice for examining how work happens and turning reflection into committed change.

Make an economic case for pursuing a process improvement or driving down toil using back of the envelope math.

A visual technique for mapping user workflows and slicing work into deliverable increments.

A process analysis technique that reveals where time is spent and where it is wasted.

Explicit constraints on the number of work items allowed in each stage of a workflow, grounded in Little's Law.