Bootstrapping 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleHow 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,...
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