6 Setting up your workflow

When I was a kid, I went to a summer activity you could call construction camp. It was a day-long activity for a couple of weeks where kids were given hammers, nails, saws and a whole lot of wood. The goal was to build a small village. I and two friends built a two-story house together. I was really proud of this wooden, rectangular, injury machine. Today, knowing my hammer-wielding limits, I wouldn’t go into a house I’d built, so I’m guessing my friends did most of the safe-keeping during the construction.

Thankfully this is not how we build houses today. We don’t give a group of people wood, hammers, nails, and saws and tell them to go build a house. There’s a lot of process and planning involved. It’s still possible to construct a shed in the garden just by winging it —  four walls and a roof. However, most of the time you’ll see architects designing the house, and then employing a special process to dig the foundations, plan the plumbing, put up scaffolds, and plan the electricity before assembling walls, estimating when painters should arrive and so on. That’s a lot of pre-work for building our houses safely and efficiently.

6.1  TL;DR

6.2  Methodologies and methods

6.2.1  You need to use a methodology

6.2.2  Agile usability

6.3  Tracking team progress with Kanban

6.3.1  Using digital or physical cards

6.3.2  Writing Kanban cards

6.3.3  Kanban card quality plan templates

6.3.4  A Kanban card for usefulness

6.4  Your quality Kanban board

6.4.1  Starting a work process

6.4.2  Implementing controls in order

6.4.3  Implementing changes

6.4.4  Analyzing changes

6.4.5  Establishing the baseline

6.4.6  Extending the work process

6.4.7  Integrating the monitoring solution

6.5  Summary