From Waterfall To River – A Story Of Transitioning To Flow
summary
Starts from Scrum then experiments with flow by running three-week sprints with no sprint planning, strict WIP limits, and a tool rollout of giraffe. Teams co-locate, do value-stream mapping, A3 problem solving and line balancing, find 187 steps and eight handoffs, measure end-to-end cycle time at 84 days, set a 20% cycle-time reduction goal, and move releases from quarterly to monthly releases. Results show steps drop to 133, handoffs to six, and recent feature cycle time near 50–54 days.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35You Dont Have To Be A StartUp
- 2:45Starbucks
- 3:09Point Of Sale
- 3:50Our Teams
- 5:13Starting The Journey
- 9:23Meeting Kourtney
- 15:14Flow Rules
- 18:54Value Streams
- 22:39Value Stream
- 24:42Homework
- 27:19Recap
- 29:49Early Adopters
- 33:19Wrap Up
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