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How do you use pace percentiles on ActionableAgile's aging chart?

It is inevitable that there are ways that the software creator intends a feature to be used and there are ways that it ends up being used.

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Little's Law - Why You Should Care

Without an understanding of what makes Little's Law work, teams are making decisions every day that are in direct contravention of facts.

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Other Myths About Little's Law

Prateek Singh and I recorded an episode of our Drunk Agile podcast to go over some Little's Law myths in more detail

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How NOT to use Little's Law

Despite what you've heard, Little's Law is not about - and was never designed for - making deterministic forecasts about the future.

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The Most Important Metric of Little's Law Isn't In The Equation

Allowing items to age arbitrarily is the single greatest factor as to why you are not efficient, effective, or predictable at delivering...

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It's Always The Assumptions

The Throughput form of Little's Law is based on five basic assumptions. Break any of those, and the equation doesn't work. Simple as that.

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What's the Tallest Mountain On Earth?

Geologists fall prey to the same syndrome that afflicts most Agile methodologies. A bias toward finish while ignoring the start.

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The Deviance of Standard Deviation

Why is the standard deviation so popular? Not because it is correct. Because that's what students are taught. It's that simple.

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One Law. Two Equations.

Little's Law's two forms can lead to two very different answers even when using the same dataset. How can one law lead to two answers?

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Is your workflow hiding key signals?

A card's position in a true workflow reflects how close or far away it is from realizing its potential value. Does yours?