LSSC11 – My impressions/takeaways
Impressions Keynotes – The Keynote by Chet Richards was AMAZING. He is a great speaker, and his content was just right for opening the LSSC conference. He had tough competition with David Snowden...
View ArticleCheck out a Prezi for one of my Kanban Training workshops
Kanban Training on Prezi I decided to get back to Prezi as an alternative to Powerpoint. Its capabilities seem to be a good match for my kind of materials – Visuals of boards, charts, etc. where you...
View ArticleSpeaking in Lean Kanban Conferences in Europe Oct 2011
I was invited to speak in two Lean Kanban conferences taking place in Europe this fall. I’m very excited about both those conferences. The speakers list is still not closed, but is very interesting on...
View ArticleTouching your electronic kanban board
Some of the teams I work with choose to have electronic kanban boards. Why? see for example 5 Reasons Why Electronic Boards Are Better Than Physical Boards a good new blog post from the guys over at...
View ArticlePatterns for getting to a lower WIP level in a system – The Freeze, No New...
Some of us have the luxury of designing processes for greenfield systems meaning there is no history/legacy to deal with. Typically though, we are dealing with Brownfield/Legacy systems – This usually...
View ArticleMy slides from Lean Kanban Benelux 2011 – Commitments and Energies in a...
I’m currently at LKBE11 enjoying the great lineup of speakers and great atmosphere. As for my part, I’m 50% done… Below is my Prezi for Commitments and Energies in a Kanban/Pull system. I’ll share...
View ArticleSlides from my Large Scale Kanban Talk at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011
Here are my slides from my talk today, in prezi form. Some concepts I talk about are Classes of Treatment – not everything deserves the same kind of treatment… Kanban principles scales cleanly from...
View ArticleMy thoughts on how Kanban and TOC Critical Chain relate
Background I recently had a short twitter chat with Catherine Swetel and Steven Holt about the relation between TOC Critical Chain and Kanban. This post will try to sum up my thoughts in a way that is...
View ArticleScrum Sprint Commitment Rant
Going on a Rant If there’s one thing that makes me mad whenever I see it is teams abusing the commitment concept in scrum. I’ve been on a rampage against dysfunctional sprint commitments for a while...
View ArticleMy Large Scale Kanban talk at Lean Kanban Central Europe 2011 Conference
Here is my talk, together with a great visualization provided by the conference organizers. My main points were: Classes of service do apply when developing products. Classes of service don’t cover...
View ArticleLean/Kanban approach to Teams
To Team or not to Team? If you look at the definition of Kanban or Lean, you wouldn’t find teams anywhere there. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, you can find “The best architectures, requirements,...
View ArticleKanban in HR
Background I recently had the opportunity to talk with a couple of HR managers who were interested in how agile can help the HR department become more effective. This was a context where the product...
View ArticleIsraeli Culture and the Evolutionary Revolution
Yesterday I was listening to David Anderson on Joe Dagger’s Business 901 Podcast. One of the interesting points were about the differences in Cultures driving to different attitude towards the Kanban...
View ArticleLKCE11 Pecha Kucha – Change Program Stall Avoidance 101 Policies Kanban – Now...
Change Program Stall Avoidance 101 & Policies Kanban View more presentations from Yuval Yeret
View ArticleLean Conference 2012 Brickell Key Award Nomination
I’m incredibly proud to be nominated for the Lean-Kanban-University Brickell Key Award for 2012. I’m especially proud to be among such a wonderful and diverse cadre of Lean/Kanban practitioners and...
View ArticleKanban Networks Exercise
One of the approaches I’ve been using lately with clients is starting with whole system Kanban, focusing on Discovery and Delivery, and then potentially zoom into Team Agile in some/all streams as the...
View ArticleKanban Accredited Training Workshop @ Israel March 21-22
As I wrote about earlier, AgileSparks is proud to be one of the charter members of the Lean Kanban University Accredited Kanban Program. I’ll be running our first Accredited Kanban Training workshop on...
View ArticleKanban Method – Finding the Minimally Viable Change
A perfect storm is brewing: Jeff Anderson has been talking about the connection between Kanban and LeanStartup A discussion about Kanban Training Materials with Mike Burrows has nudged me to give more...
View ArticleKanban Training after Scrum Gathering Atlanta May 10-11 2012
I’m proud to be on the speaker roster for Scrum Gathering Atlanta this May. I will be talking about why I think Continuous Improvement is broken and share thoughts, tips and examples from the field of...
View ArticleWhere is the “Customer Development” aspect of the Lean Startup for Change...
I recently wrote about finding the Minimum Viable Change and have been thinking about it some more, especially while working on my presentation for upcoming Scrum Gathering Atlanta and Lean Systems and...
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