Articles that would have been on improvingflow.com, covering Kanban systems, flow metrics, forecasting, and predictability in knowledge work.

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ArticleDate
What to measureFebruary 5, 2026
Start and end points for flow metricsJanuary 28, 2026
Goodharts LawJanuary 20, 2026
Does a mature scrum team need a facilitator for their daily scrum?January 9, 2026
Craving certainty - why we distrust probabilistic forecastsJanuary 6, 2026
Collecting metrics for no reasonDecember 16, 2025
Stalled workNovember 28, 2025
Work in Progress (WIP) for a teamNovember 24, 2025
Everyone should be able to update the boardOctober 19, 2025
PrioritiesOctober 15, 2025
Speeding up the daily coordination meeting (AKA standup, daily scrum)October 1, 2025
Meeting punctualitySeptember 23, 2025
Supporting the new hiresSeptember 18, 2025
The facilitators roleSeptember 6, 2025
Risk ManagementJuly 27, 2025
Gaming metricsJuly 23, 2025
OKR's for QualityJuly 22, 2025
Jira Metrics 2.12July 14, 2025
PrioritizationJuly 2, 2025
Wait statesMay 7, 2025
Playing the long gameMay 1, 2025
Building the right thingApril 14, 2025
No single right answerFebruary 15, 2025
Driving to the airportFebruary 2, 2025
WIP by ParentJanuary 29, 2025
Jira's Start Standup ButtonDecember 20, 2024
Explaining technical work in business termsDecember 16, 2024
Only one ticket per work itemNovember 22, 2024
Basic Flow MetricsNovember 21, 2024
Continuous improvementNovember 2, 2024
Focus on ValueOctober 7, 2024
Visualizing Flow EfficiencyOctober 5, 2024
Looking for improvementSeptember 28, 2024
High WIP invalidates prioritizationSeptember 25, 2024
Hybrid teamsSeptember 4, 2024
AuditSeptember 1, 2024
Fractional peopleAugust 29, 2024
Optimizing for time overlapAugust 28, 2024
Learning to say noAugust 22, 2024
Intent of standups / scrum meetingsAugust 12, 2024
Understanding the usersAugust 8, 2024
No blockersAugust 5, 2024
Excessive sub-tasksAugust 4, 2024
Ambiguity in wordingAugust 2, 2024
Definitions of Ready and DoneJuly 23, 2024
Monkey GrassingJuly 20, 2024
Tracking metricsJuly 15, 2024
When everything is a priorityJuly 11, 2024
Flow EfficiencyJuly 6, 2024
Self-sufficient teamsJuly 2, 2024
When we do everything right and it still doesn't solve the right problemJune 18, 2024
Horizontal scalingJune 13, 2024
Book recommendationsJune 11, 2024
Monte Carlo under the coversJune 5, 2024
What is Probabilistic Forecasting?June 2, 2024
Jirametrics 2.0April 22, 2024
Reference class forecastingApril 10, 2024
Data AccuracyApril 4, 2024
Quickstart for JiraMetricsMarch 16, 2024
Stalled workMarch 6, 2024
Slicing epicsFebruary 21, 2024
Remote work vs in-person: What does the data say?February 11, 2024
Who should look at what metrics?January 17, 2024
Quality vs Testing: Solving the wrong problemJanuary 9, 2024
Slicing storiesDecember 3, 2023
Premature optimizationNovember 25, 2023
Improving meetingsNovember 19, 2023
Per-story estimatesJuly 8, 2023
What is a Service Level Expectation?June 18, 2023
Kanban: Simple, but not always obviousJune 10, 2023
Keeping people busyMay 20, 2023
Steps to improving predictabilityApril 25, 2023
Optimizing collaborationApril 23, 2023
Is a blocked column on your board always a poor practice?March 31, 2023
Technical DebtJanuary 28, 2023
Multiple boards for a single teamJanuary 1, 2023
Who should define the workflow?August 2, 2022
One Thing vs Multiple ThingsJune 3, 2022
Defining a workflowSeptember 20, 2021
Staying within our WIP limitsSeptember 17, 2021
Improving Predictability - Consistent Units and ConclusionSeptember 16, 2021
Improving Predictability - Average AgeSeptember 15, 2021
Moving backwards on a kanban boardSeptember 14, 2021
Improving Predictability - All work must finishSeptember 14, 2021
Improving Predictability - Average Arrival and Departure RatesSeptember 13, 2021
Improving PredictabilitySeptember 12, 2021
Getting Kanban metrics from the Jira APIAugust 28, 2021
The cost of interruptions and how to reduce itAugust 22, 2021
Massively overburdened with WIPJuly 25, 2021
Flowing valueJuly 14, 2021
Classes of serviceJune 16, 2021
“We tried Kanban and it didn't work”June 6, 2021
Waste: Psychological DistressMay 27, 2021
Understanding waste in the systemMay 26, 2021
The only way to win is to learn fasterMay 25, 2021
Determining cycle time from an online systemMay 18, 2021
Improving the daily coordination meetingMay 17, 2021
Setting initial WIP limitsApril 18, 2021
Improve the work, not the metricsApril 14, 2021
The three flow metrics (plus one)April 12, 2021
Lowering the Water Level - the metaphor explained.April 4, 2021
Introducing the Kanban GuideApril 2, 2021