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Use this chart to...
- Visualise the behaviour of the overall system over time.
- Highlight the location of queues or bottlenecks in the system as well as highlighting where there is too much work in progress. (WIP)
What the chart shows...
- Looking back it is possible to see where the team had too much WIP, where bottlenecks exist as work flows across the board.
- Advanced techniques can be used to estimate the lead time of work - i.e. how long a piece of work takes to go across the 'in progress' states
- You can focus on the amount of WIP in a single state, like 'In development' over time, which is useful to see if the trend is in the right direction - where lower WIP is better.
- A lot of insight that can be derived from the CFD and Pawel Brodzinski provides a good summary of how to interpret a CFD
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