Utilization

Home
Blog
Utilization

Aug

2020

By Clarence Galapon

Over and Under Utilized Resources

Elite Circle, Utilization

Day 150. Refer to the picture below. An example of over and utilized resources (in this case, the roads). Think of the road as your agile teams... the cars are the stories they need to finish. The over utilized team ( the road with lots of cars) will have Continue reading

Jun

2020

By Clarence Galapon

Why You Must Not Over Utilize

Utilization

Day 85. This is how it looks like an over utilized ... This is how it looks like when super utilized to insanity... Contrast the aforementioned pictures to this ... just enough utilization... Which of these pictures will deliver more within a span of time? Correlate these scenarios to your ‘Pipeline’ of work... with your team... with your sprint or iteration ... your Kanban work flow system ... your life ... everything!!!

Search for:

Sort by

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address

Lean Agile and McDonald’s

SAFe Talks — By The Lean Agile Guru (Curator)

The Art of the Possible — Focus on what it (the team) can do

S _ _ t Bad Scrum Masters Say

Category Cloud

3CS Acceptance Criteria Achievement Ratio Adapt Agile agile coaching competency framework Agile Principle #10 Agile Release Train agile software enginnering Agile Team Agility agility health radar alignment A Long Time Ago... Amazing American Indian Wisdom Analogy Announcement Anti-Pattern apple approved ART ART Canvas Art of War ART synch ASE Aspirational Assumptions Automated Testing Autonomy baby step Baby steps Backlog Refinement balian ballet Bamboo Barack Obama Batch Size BDD Behavior-Driven Development beliefs Benefit bet be yourself bicycle Big Picture Blowing Smoke BMC Bottleneck Brain-Friendly Learning Brain Games brainstorming brain training Break Time Bright Spot built in quality burning platform Business Agility business analyst business objective Business Owners business value Cadence CALMR capacity capital pride CD CDP CE Celebrate ceremonies certification change Check chess Chinese New Year 2020 Chomsky christmas 2019 CI CI/CD Class Announcement Class of Service Coach coach improvement roadmap coaching coaching conversations coding collaborate collaboration Commander Commitment Companies Comparison Component Teams Confluence connections Consensus consulting Context Switching continuous delivery pipeline continuous deployment continuous exploration continuous integration Continuous Learning Culture Control Chart Conversation Core Competencies Cost Per Story Point counselling creativity cross-train crucial conversations Curiosity curious Current Event Current Events customer centric D-DAY daily standup Dark Psychology Dave West Decentralize Decentralized Decision-Making Decision decision making Definition of Done Definition of Ready Definition of Success delivery delivery rate vs throughput Demo Design Thinking desired outcome DevOps Did you know? Disciplined Agile discovery do Documentation DoD DoR down Downtime Dread DSU Duty, Honor, Country Dynamic Easter Sunday Echolocation Edison education Effective Efficient EI Einstein Elite Circle Emotional Intelligence Emotional Quotient Empathy Empathy Map empirical empirical management empiricism Empowered Enabler Engage engineering Environment Esprit De Corps Essential Estimable Estimate evolve Extreme Programming exuberance F.A.T. Failing Fast Failure Faith Father’s Day fear feature Feature/use case to Stories feature development Feature Teams Feedback Fibonacci Filmmaking finite First PI first things first Fist of Five flat-rate Priority mail flow Focusing Tool fog of uncertainty Food for Thought football forecast For Laughs Fostering an Environment Four IF Four Seasons Of Life Framework Freedom fruit fun Fundamental Funding Funding Capacity funding capacity not initiatives funding value stream funnel Gardener Genesis goal goal setting growrh mindset Growth Guard band Habits Happiness Happy 4th of July! Happy Mother’s Day! Happy New Year Happy PI Day happy thanksgiving Heart of Scrum High-Performing ART Highest Priority high performing teams Holidays Horizontally Sliced Story house of safe huddle humor hypothesis idea identical IID imagine Impediment Improve In-person infinite Inform Innovate Innovation innovation and planning innovation riptide Innovative inspect and adapt Inspire Intent interactions interesting Intrinsic motivation invaluable INVEST IP Iteration Iron triangle irrational Iterate Iteration iteration goal iteration review Iterative and incremental iterative and incremental development Jira jira and confluence Join Us Journey Just do it Kanban key results kingdom of heaven Knowledge Knowledge Workers Labor Day Laughter leadership leading by hindsight Lead Time Lean Lean-Ux Lean Agile lean agile leadership lean agile mindset Lean Agile Software Factory Series Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Lean Startup Learn By Doing learning Learning Fast Learning Tips Learn new things Lessons From Fedex lightweight limiting beliefs Live Aid Live Sessions Load look ahead LPM LPM 5.0 manifesto Manipulation mantra MAP Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose Maturity McDonald’s MECE Member Mentor Merchandise merry christmas 2018! Metaphor metrics milestone Mind mindset mindset shift Minimum Marketable Feature minimum viable experiment Minimum Viable Product mini trolley cart Mission Impossible MMF Model modeling Mother's Day Motivation motivational move on movies Muscle muscle memory MVE MVP Name Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte Negotiable New Book Nexus Framework Nike Noam Chomsky non functional requirements (NFRs) objective obstacles Offer OKR and CFR On-Track or Off-Track Online open and honest Openness Organization Organize around value Organize Teams oscars outcome ownership pairing parable Patience pattern Patton PDCA Peer Review people Perfection Permission Persevere Persona perspective photograph photographer photography PI Pigs and Chickens pi objective pipeline pi planning PI Roadmap Pivot Plan Plan as you go Planning Platinum playbook PM PMI politician popm synch portfolio portfolio backlog Positive Intent PO Synch powerful questions PPM Program Predictability Measure practice practices Predictability prescripting prescriptive Preserve Options Principle Principle #3 principle #4 principle #8 principle #9 Principle #10 principle 1 principle 2 principle 5 principles prioritize problem solvimg Product Management Product Manager Product Owner Products program program board Program Execution program increment Program PI Objective project management institute Prototype proverb for Product Managers Psychology Pull Purpose purpose to practice pursuit of the dream Push quality Queen questions Queue quiz time quotes random re-concieve Recharge Red for Ed 2019 refinement Reflect refreshing relatedness Relative Estimation relative sizing Releasability Release Release on demand Release Train Engineer relentless and continuous improvement Remote respect Results retro Retrospective reverse bicycle roadmap role role and responsibility roots Rote Learning RTE SAFe safe 4.5 SAFe 4.6 SAFe 5.0 SAFe 6.0 SAFe 6.o Practice SAFe Agile Software Engineering SAFe Classes SAFe Classes and Registrations SAFe Coach's Handbook safe continuous delivery pipeline SAFe Core Values SAFe Is Like… SAFe Portfolio Canvas SAFe Principle #2 SAFe Principle #3 SAFe Principle #6 SAFe Principle #7 SAFe Principle #8 SAFe Principle #9 SAFe Principle #10 SAFe Roles SAI Scale Scaled Agile Inc. scaling scrum SCARF Scrum Scrum at scale Scrum Master scrum of scrums Scrum Team Scrum Values ScrumXP Seed Self-interest Self-organizing team self organization sequence servant leader Services sharing Shift from project manager to scrum master shopping for pi planning supplies Show and tell Show me the money Shuhari simon sinek Simplicity Slow Down Small small batches Small is beautiful SMART Goals snowball effect Software Engineering Software Engineering Practices Solution PI Objective So True SPC specialty role sports spread sheet Spring spring break Sprint sprint backlog Sprint Goal sprint planning Sprint Review SSM 5.0 Stakeholders standards Starbucks Stay Hungry Steps to Value stop the work Story Story Breakup Story of Self, Us, Now Story Points Strange Strategy Stretch Objective style Subconcious Mind Success Summer Sun Tzu Superstar Swarming SWOT Analysis synchronize System system demo Tactic talking stick Task Tasking Stories tasks and hours Teaching team team dynamics team of teams Team PI Objective Teams Team Spirit technical agility technical coach TED Talk Test-Driven Development Testimonials testing Thanksgiving Thank You The Art of the possible The creative brain the demo the game of the century The Nutcracker theory Thought tipping point TOWS TOWS Analysis TQM Training transfonational coaching Transformation transformational coaching Travel Trello Tribe True Learning Trust Truth Try Two Levers Tyranny Ultimate competitive advantage Uncategorized unique value proposition unwind Upside Down Triangle Use Case USPS Utilization value values Values and Principles value stream Variability Vertically Sliced Story Veterans Day vision Visual Visual Chain Thinking Visualize Visual Thinking Volatility Vote W. Edwards Deming Watch item Waterfall Wedding planner what would you do why? winning horse Winter WIP Work In Process Writing XP

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Applied Lean Agile SAFe Classes

Click here to see all SAFe Classes

Lean Agile Guru Consulting, LLC

Click here for more Lean Agile Guru Short Films...

Our Contact Information

1-704-763-6830 or 1-704-763-9482
admin@leanagileguru.com
https://leanagileguru.com/
Charlotte. N.C. 28277
U.S.A.
Monday to Friday: 9:00 AM ET to 5:00 PM ET
Saturday: 10 AM ET to 3:00 PM ET
Sunday: 12 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET