Category: SPC

  • Removing the bubbles: solving bottlenecks in software product development

    A challenge with software product development is visualising the work so that you can spot where there are delays in the process of converting ideas from โ€œconcept to cashโ€. This post shows how a cumulative flow diagram helped identify a pattern of queues over time. Removing these queues had many benefits such as fewer errors,…

  • Control / Capability Charts on a Kanban Software Development Project

    Corey Ladas and David J Anderson have recently spoken about how lots of software/IT teams using Kanban board have created Cumulative Flow Diagram but few of them have done control (or capability) charts or histogram. On the software development project I’m the Project Manager of we have started using control charts for several reasons: To…