QuestionQ454

Delivery

A Scrum team decided to transition to Kanban for the product’s maintenance phase. The Kanban board has these columns: “To do,” “In progress,” “Ready to be tested,” “Test in progress,” and “Done.” Since changing its way of working, the team has noticed that work flows more slowly through the system. A large queue of work items marked “Ready to be tested” has accumulated.

What should the team do to improve delivery speed?

  • A Analyze the process efficiency, cycle time, and lead time of the entire process.
  • B Estimate in story points and pull in new work per the team’s capacity.
  • C Add limits to all columns and only pull work in when the queue is not full.
  • D Create a cumulative flow diagram and start looking for bottlenecks.
Explanation

Work is accumulating immediately before testing because work is being started faster than it can be tested. WIP limits and a pull policy prevent upstream stages from adding more work when the downstream queue is full, reducing queues and improving flow through the delivery system.

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