Lean/Kanban approach to Teams
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutesTo 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...
View ArticleHow to use Kanban to help improve your recruiting process
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutesBackground 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...
View ArticleIsraeli Culture and the Evolutionary Revolution
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesRevolution outside Evolution inside may be just what the doctor ordered for the impatient Israeli change leader. The post Israeli Culture and the Evolutionary...
View ArticleLKCE11 Pecha Kucha – Change Program Stall Avoidance 101 Policies Kanban – Now...
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteChange Program Stall Avoidance 101 & Policies Kanban View more presentations from Yuval Yeret The post LKCE11 Pecha Kucha – Change Program Stall Avoidance 101...
View ArticleLean Conference 2012 Brickell Key Award Nomination
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteI’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...
View ArticleKanban Networks Exercise
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesOne 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...
View ArticleKanban Accredited Training Workshop @ Israel March 21-22
Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteAs 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...
View ArticleKanban Method – Finding the Minimally Viable Change
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesA perfect storm is brewing: Jeff Anderson has been talking about the connection between Kanban and LeanStartup A discussion about Kanban Training Materials with Mike...
View ArticleKanban Training after Scrum Gathering Atlanta May 10-11 2012
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesI’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,...
View ArticleWhere is the “Customer Development” aspect of the Lean Startup for Change...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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...
View ArticleSo what IS Scrumban?
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutesBackground 3 years ago in Agile Israel 2009 I talked about ScrumBan. The slideshare presentation has been one of most popular ones, and remarkably enough it is the...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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