How to REALLY Add Learning to your Agile Marketing Flow
Adding 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, value stream, or whatever group of...
View ArticleLeanSSC/Kanban US conference 2011 – #LSSC11 – Are you coming?
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute The Lean Software and Systems Consortium US-based community conference will be May 3-6 next year, in Long Beach California. I'll be there, talking about "Using Kanban...
View ArticleHighlight slides from the Agilesparks Kanban for Managers Workshop
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteLast week I ran another round of our Kanban for Managers workshop. So far, I'm excited about the feedback I read and hear. I think Kanban is making sense to people, and...
View ArticleHow I would simulate time-boxed agile in the @getkanban kanban board game
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutesAt Agilesparks we’ve recently been using the Kanban Board Game developed by Russell Heally (@getkanban) quite extensively. We use it as part of Kanban courses, sessions...
View ArticleNext public Kanban workshop I’m delivering – on Feb 8 2011
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteThe next public Kanban workshop in israel is coming up in just a few weeks – also see http://agilesparks.com/kanban+for+managers What can you expect? Well, you might...
View ArticleThe Agile Lowest Common Denominator – Avoiding a slowdown due to the weakest...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the concerns often raised when people hear about kanban is that the weakest/slowest link will slow down the whole chain. For example if testing is a bottleneck...
View ArticleWebinar LSSC11: Session 4 – Intro to Lean Product Development Flow
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteI’ve been asked to deliver a pre-LSSC11 webinar on the topic of Lean Product Development flow. I’m going to introduce an approach to mixing Lean and Agile in order to...
View ArticleI’m a nominee for the Lean Software and Systems 2011 Brickell Key Award!
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteLean Software and Systems – 2011 Brickell Key Award Nominees. I’m so humbled by it and by the great cadre of nominees I’m considered with, don’t have much to say … Just...
View ArticleAgileIL11 is over, what an exciting event! my Slides for Secrets of Flow are...
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteFor those interested in my talk about Secrets of Flow, here it is: see some pictures from the event as well: The post AgileIL11 is over, what an exciting event! my...
View ArticleReasons to come early to conferences, or at least to LSSC Lean Software and...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesIts early wednesday, I’m at Long Beach for LSSC11 – the main US conference for the Lean Software Systems Consortium also at LimitedWIPSociety.org – the community...
View ArticleLSSC11 – My impressions/takeaways
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesImpressions 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...
View ArticleCheck out a Prezi for one of my Kanban Training workshops
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteKanban 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...
View ArticleSpeaking in Lean Kanban Conferences in Europe Oct 2011
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteI 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...
View ArticleTouching your electronic kanban board
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesSome 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...
View ArticlePatterns for getting to a lower WIP level in a system – The Freeze, No New...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesSome 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...
View ArticleMy slides from Lean Kanban Benelux 2011 – Commitments and Energies in a...
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteI’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...
View ArticleSlides from my Large Scale Kanban Talk at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteHere 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...
View ArticleMy thoughts on how Kanban and TOC Critical Chain relate
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutesBackground 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...
View ArticleScrum Sprint Commitment Rant
Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutesGoing 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...
View ArticleMy Large Scale Kanban talk at Lean Kanban Central Europe 2011 Conference
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteHere 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....
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