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Brickell Key Award 2015
I am very excited and honoured to announce that I am nominated for this year’s Brickell Key Award. For those of you who don’t know the Brickell Key Award, it is the way of honouring people that have shown leadership and contributions in … Continue reading
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Not all kanban is alike
In the series of “not all work is alike” and “not all change is alike” I could not resist the temptation to write a blog titled “not all kanban is alike”. Mainstream kanban systems (which I will refer to as delivery kanban) as … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery Kanban, kanban, Lean, Lean startup
Tagged discovery kanban, kanban, lean, lean startup
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Not all change is alike
After the opening session at the Kanban Leadership retreat in Portugal it is clear that change is again a big topic at the retreat. Mike Burrows’ session proposal is on visualising change (have a look at his recent blog post). … Continue reading
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Visual project management
I did a webinar for LeanKit where I explore the why-how-what of Visual Project Management. Below you can find a link to the slides. Visual Management Webinar – LeanKit & Patrick Steyaert from LeanKit
6D root cause analysis of flow in knowledge work
I have been working on a little framework for analyzing why work is, or is not, flowing. The result can be seen below. It takes the form of an Ishikawa, or fishbone, diagram. The purpose is to look at a … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Ishikawa, ishikawa diagram, kanban, lean, root cause analysis
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A careful analysis of work organization underlying Scrum and Kanban
The Scrum vs Kanban discussion is quite a debate with many different viewpoints including the viewpoint that it is a pointless debate. I personally think that something useful can be extracted. In order to do so we need to look inside the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, continuous flow, demand leveling, distributed cognition, kanban, knowledge work, lean, pacemaker, pull, scrum, swarming, Toyota Production System, work cells
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Using narrative to research Kanban implementations
Update to this post (Oct. 30, 2013) During the months after this blog post, Arno Korpershoek and myself have worked on an implementation of a narrative research tool (as described in the blog post) for lean agile organizations based on … Continue reading
Posted in change, complexity, kanban, Lean, Uncategorized
Tagged agile organization, Change, Fitness landscapes, kanban, narrative inquiry, Narrative research
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Managing risks and options with discovery Kanban
At the London Lean Kanban day last month I gave the following presentation on discovery kanban.
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Lean Kanban Europrean Tour 2012 – Resilient change
Here’s the slides of my presentations at LKNL2012 and LKFR2012:
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability with Kanban
Resilience “Imagine you are on a boat docked in a calm harbor and you want to quickly carry a brim-full cup of water across a stateroom without spilling. Now imagine the same situation but with the boat in rough seas. … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptability, kanban, lean, resilience
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Lean Adaptive Leadership 