How to REALLY Add Learning to your Agile Marketing Flow
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesAdding Learning/Feedback to the Value Stream – A core aspect of Agile “Inspect and Adapt” – Especially on Agile Marketing teams. Whenever I work with a team, program,...
View ArticleAgile New England Meetup on July 14th in Boston – Lean, Agile, DevOps, Flow,...
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteAgile New England and the Boston Limited WIP Society invited me to give a talk on my next visit to Boston. The SES group in Siemens PLM (my client… ) graciously agreed...
View ArticleFlow-driven Product Development webinar w/ LeanKit
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteWhat a week. A full exhilarating week in Boston working with a product development group which I’ve been helping the last couple of months. They recently formed into 7...
View ArticleFlow-driven Product Development – Upcoming webinar w/ LeanKit
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteLeanKit asked me to host a webinar for their highly popular webinar series. I naturally accepted. And it was also just natural that the topic would be Kanban/Flow in...
View ArticleSo What Is The Agile Boost Camp Workshop?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes“This format is amazing. All workshops should run this way”. This is the comment we heard from a recent participant of our recently created Agile Boost Camp format. In...
View ArticleThe synergies of Kanban & DevOps
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteI believe Kanban and REAL DevOps are a match made in heaven. I really do. I know I’m not the only one. Leading into Agile India 2015 InfoQ interviewed me about this....
View ArticleHow to limit WIP when you cannot block arriving work requests?
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesA concern that comes up frequently when you start talking about applying a WIP limit is: “So, what I understand from you is that at some point you will block incoming...
View ArticleKanban FAQ: Should I FINISH what I’m working on or help the team READY new...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce people start to get “Stop Starting Start Finishing” thinking (Kanban) or the “Focus on the current sprint” thinking (Scrum) a frequent question that comes up is...
View ArticleLean Kanban North America is coming to San Francisco but when will I have...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesLean Kanban North America a.k.a Modern Management Methods conference for 2014 is coming up. This year it will take place in beautiful San Francisco. I love San...
View ArticleSensing and increasing manager engagement during an agile change initiative –...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesEarlier this week I published a guest post about how managers need to change if they want agile to succeed by Yaki Koren. Some blog/twitter followers asked for...
View ArticleBootstrapping Agile (by yourself) using Kanban – My Agile Israel 2013 talk
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesAgile Israel 2013 took place yesterday. This year was they year of “Hands on”. Around 600 attendees came to get practical hands on advice on multiple aspects of the...
View ArticleRecent Reading Lists
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute(UPDATE: This post is quite deprecated now. For up-2-date reading lists go to the AgileSparks Per-Topic Reading Lists) I’ve recently gone into Seal/Whale mode and didn’t...
View ArticleMay the WIP Games begin…
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesPreface The day has come for FLOWer to bloom (maybe we should call it “Hatzav” (maritime squeel) after the flower that brings the autumn here in israel… btw we are in...
View ArticleUsing card types and filters as “Virtual Horizontal Swimming Lanes” on a...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter a serious break from Kanban Mechanics posts, here is one for you Kanban System Designers/Practitioners out there… I’ve recently become a fan of the “Virtual...
View ArticleExperiencing Kanban System Design
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a Kanban Trainer I often introduce people to the Kanban Method for evolutionary change and the aspects of evolving system design and how they drive improvement. I’ve...
View ArticleWhy Agile Testing
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesBackground I recently had a couple of weeks with a few activities related to “Agile Testing”. “Agile Testing” for those not familiar with it is the name we give to the...
View ArticleThe Scrum Sprint Commitment/Forecast as an Expectation
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesDisclaimer – I’m a well-known Scrum Sprint Commitment basher. But in the last few weeks especially while processing the Lean Conference Boston Keynote by Steven Spear...
View ArticleDo we need stack ranking in a kanban system?
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesI want to talk about a kanban system design issue today. Do we need a way to portray full stack ranking of cards throughout a kanban system or is it enough to see stack...
View ArticleImpressions from Lean Systems and Software Conference 2012 Boston
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I prepare to check out from the Boston Seaport Hotel which was the venue of this year’s LSSC conference (and did a magnificent job hosting us!), here are my...
View ArticleDo we need Scrum to get to Kanban???
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesI just wrote a lengthy reply on a kanbandev thread about Using Scrum to implement Kanban and vice versa and thought I would share it here, especially so I can tweet it...
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