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Examples of Lean Reports and Visibility<br />EladAmit<br />September 2010<br />

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Cumulative Flow Diagram (a.k.a. CFD)<br />Purpose:Visually depict our work queues and completion trends to allow us to find and fix bottlenecks as well as predict completion velocity<br />

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Cumulative Flow Diagram (a.k.a. CFD)<br />End Report:<br />Stacked area chart showing per stage,<br />the total estimate for the items in that stage<br />Y-axis<br />total estimate<br />of items<br />X-axis<br />Time (tick per day)<br />

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Cumulative Flow Diagram (a.k.a. CFD)<br />Example (Day 13):<br />Backlog – 5<br />Selected – 1<br />Develop Ongoing – 2<br />Develop Done – 1<br />Deploy – 1<br />Live - 4<br />

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Cumulative Flow Diagram (a.k.a. CFD)<br />Filters:<br />Work item type (e.g. requirement, task, defect)Only one type due to different stages per typeNote: in case of requirement, need to aggregate the estimates from the tasks<br />Date range<br />Customer<br />Assignee<br />Severity<br />Priority<br />Etc...(preferably have the ability to filter on any attribute of the selected work item type)<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />Purpose:Identify outliers in our process to focus improvement initiatives and reduce special cause variation<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />End Report:<br />A dot on the chart is a work item which finished on that date. Ex: the dot at the end of the arrow was finished on November 20th and took 20 days to complete<br />Y-axis<br />Actual chronological<br />time it took an item<br />X-axis<br />Time (tick per day)<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />End Report:<br />The upper control limit (mean +3 std.dev.)<br />Outliers (anything above the upper<br />control limit) clearly marked<br />The mean cycle time for all<br />of the items in the report<br />The lower control limit (mean -3 std.dev.)<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />Parameters:<br />What portion of the process we want to measure the cycle time for (e.g. from defined to development done, from start of development to testing)<br />Item Filters:<br />Work item type (e.g. requirement, task, defect)Only one type due to different stages per type<br />Date range<br />Customer<br />Assignee<br />Severity<br />Priority<br />Etc...(preferably have the ability to filter on any attribute of the selected work item type)<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />RebasingNeed to allow rebasing of mean, upper and lower control limits to allow the chart to account for changes (e.g. more employees, changes in development processes)<br />Rebasing points due to changes<br />

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Average Cycle Time<br />Purpose:Identify trends in our delivery velocity<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />End Report:<br />Line chart with average cycle time per day<br />Y-axis<br />Average cycle time<br />for all items finished<br />on said day<br />X-axis<br />Time (tick per day)<br />

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Process Control Chart<br />Parameters:<br />What portion of the process we want to measure the cycle time for (e.g. from defined to development done, from start of development to testing)<br />Item Filters:<br />Work item type (e.g. requirement, task, defect)Only one type due to different stages per type<br />Date range<br />Customer<br />Assignee<br />Severity<br />Priority<br />Etc...(preferably have the ability to filter on any attribute of the selected work item type)<br />

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