Little book of Workflow management
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Little book of Workflow management

Making your business more effective and more productive

About the Book

Allan Kelly has spent years helping teams become more effective and productive in their work. In this book he lays out his step-by-step for formula for you to do the same in your business. Best of all, this approach doesn't depend on senior people directing each action and becoming central to productive work, quite the opposite.

The people who do the work are the experts in making it better. This book sets out how to organize work so everyone can contribute to getting it done and continuing improvement.

About the Author

Allan Kelly
Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly calls himself an Agile Guide. He helps software professionals enjoy more fulfilling and satisfying work by improving the way work is organised and requests are made. Happier people and better ways of working make for more effective companies, greater value and competitive advantage.

His wide experience of the challenges faced in software development underpins his advice, coaching, training and writing. He is the author of seven books including "Xanpan - team centric Agile Software Development", "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Continuous Digital". He has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. His blog is at https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/

Table of Contents

  •  
    • What is this?
    • Who is this book for?
    • Preface
  • I Getting started
    • 1. Improvement starts by making work visible
    • 2. Benefits of a live work scoreboard
    • 3. Pull, don’t push
    • 4. Control intake
    • 5. Limit WIP - Time to use the wip
    • 6. Shared to do list
    • 7. Shared planning
    • 8. Break down: Big goals and small tasks
    • 9. Make you board central to everything
    • 10. Team board not project board
  • II Improving
    • 11. Worse before better
    • 12. Management change
    • 13. Where to find improvement
    • 14. A culture of fixing blocks
    • 15. Reducing queues
    • 16. Moving backwards? - when quality makes you faster
    • 17. Marooned work
    • 18. Waiting for …
    • What tool is that?
    • About the author
      • Links
      • Also by Allan Kelly
    • Version

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