LLKD15 - Kanban Metrics in Practice - Mattia Battiston

Why should I bother collecting metrics? How can they help me? My CFD is pretty and colourful, but what is it actually trying to tell me?
CFD, control chart, lead time distribution, percentiles...Metrics can be daunting to start with but if you know how to interpret them they can really take your Kanban system to the next level - drive continuous improvement and forecast the future! It’s much easier than you think, no need for complex maths or expensive software.
At Sky Network Services a few teams are using Kanban and metrics. In this talk I’ll share our experience: what metrics we use, how we use each one of them, what little data we collect to get a whole lot of value, what pitfalls we encountered.

[@lgurgel0403]

Awesome talk. Helped me a lot. Thank you!

[@kevanschwitzer8585]

Fantastic talk! Thank you!!!

[@alchemication]

Very nice talk. Learned something new, as we’re trying to roll out Kanban to our new team. Thanks!

[@Rafa_informatico]

Slides: www.slideshare.net/mattiabattiston/kanban-metrics-in-practice-for-leading-continuous-improvement
Cumulative Flow Diagram
by Pawel Brodzinski: brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html
A Tool for Tracking Kanban Projects by Emily Webber: emilywebber.co.uk/a-tool-for-tracking-kanban-projects-that-you-can-cut-out-and-keep/

[@AG-br1jl]

Is there a link to how to get hold of the metrics you presented and ways of how to get access to files or ways to recreate the metrics presented in your presentation?

[@robertnelson9621]

Good presentation. Re control charts, presenter says it is not a Standard Distribution but a Weibull Distribution. Then why does he use 2 sigma at all - having pointed out that 6 sigma is not useful.

[@TheOldBatty87]

Hi Robert, presenter here. Thanks for your feedback. To clarify, in the control chart I was using percentiles as limits (80th and 25th) rather than standard deviation