When examining real workflow data, there's a common pattern: clusters of tasks that have aged significantly, some clearly stagnating beyond recognition acceptable timeframes. These cases point to one of the most important yet very often overlooked metrics in flow management: WIP Aging. WIP (Work In Progress) Aging measures the elapsed time that a work item has … Continue reading Boosting Efficiency with WIP Aging Insights and Tools
TL;DR: Forecasting team Throughput is super-easy and much more reliable than traditional methods, if you limit your work in Progress. Reliability confirmed by research data. We've already extensively covered Throughput (one of the flow metrics), how to analyze Throughput data from 3 key angles. And why it's better for forecasting than storypoints. Now let's get … Continue reading Monte Carlo Simulation: Forecasting Throughput and Project Timelines
My latest tenure of 2.5 years is closely related to Designing and Adopting Incident Management Framework (as part of Program Management org). This activity was driven with two primary objectives in mind: Reach an uptime of 99.99% , and Ensure engineering knows about any outage first. Establishing the Network Operations Center (NOC) Team is a strategic move to shape a robust system and take charge of Incident Management. I'll talk details about Metrics and KPIs, such as First Time to Respond, Time to Acknowledge, Time to Assemble, Proactive Engineering Detection Rate, Number of Critical False Positives that helped boost the uptime to almost four-nines.
So we've survived Ufa Atlassian User Group, the very first meetup, with 17 people visiting our office to hear about jira, confluence, bitbucket and other atlassian products 🙂 We've discussed how Jira helped us in reflecting SkuVault development processes, and how do we keep documentation on the feature in Confluence, until it's released, and … Continue reading Ufa AUG #1. Wrap Up
This time it was all about requirements. And we hosted the event at our cozy SkuVault office: Eliciting and preparing requirements from gathering data till development: Oleg Gumerov (PO at SMENA - solutions provider for a big delivery service) shared his experience on how they do it in SMENA.io; Nur Ibragimov (Head Analyst at modulbank) … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
How to ensure that requests from different sources become formalized and clear requirements, and address communication, clear interpretation, accountability and transparency.
Last year guys from SkuVault offered me an amazing opportunity to help the company manage a growing development team, create organized schedule, establish workflow that reflects the company goals . For those who don't know - SkuVault is a Warehouse Management System (WMS). Like a swiss army knife, SkuVault manages and syncs your inventory across … Continue reading Year Retrospective @ SkuVault
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO 