Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

by Dominica Degrandis

The visualization and WIP-limiting strategies

time is sacred. Treat it as such. Visualize your work. Limit the amount of work you take on. Pay attention to its flow. Build thoughtful work systems to reflect what really matters.

The fact that developers and testers had come to me to ask for status updates was a symptom of a much larger problem that I didn’t recognize at the time.

Kanban is a visual pull system based on constraints that allow workers to pull work when they have availability instead of work being pushed onto them regardless of their current workload.

Either give them the attention they need or kill them.

two-thirds of the population have a visual-spatial preference.

Knowing when to break the rules is something that comes with experience.

Creating categories for your work allows you to see different types of work

I’ve found that it just takes an engaged group of dedicated team members to bring extra, much needed visibility to those items that are pain points for your team.