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What Kanban Really Is
I promised to share more thoughts on my Kanban presentation from AgileByExample. Actually during abe2011 there were 3 sessions which touched Kanban in one way or another. And then, well, and then...
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Kanban Story: Kanban Board Should Reflect the Reality
The other day I had a discussion over a Kanban board design. A team has realized the board doesn’t reflect the way they work ideally. We started analyzing what happened. What did actually introduce a...
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The Purpose of Retrospectives
Those of you who read Software Project Management regularly know for sure that I have sort of experimentation attitude. I like to try different things, see how they work and, if they sort of do, share...
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What Is Slack Time For?
Jurgen Appelo recently touched the subject of slack time discussing what kind of tasks are supposed to be done in such time slots. First thing that I find disputable is reducing slack time to mere...
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Slack Time
It often comes to me as a surprise that people misunderstand different concepts or definitions that we use in our writings or presentations. Actually, it shouldn’t. I have to remind myself over and...
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The Goal of Evolutionary Change
So we landed in this crappy team that wasn’t able to deliver anything on time. Fortunately we were aware of our mediocrity and knew tools that helped us to pursue evolutionary change. We started...
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Kanban and Behavioral Change
One of my favorite and yet most surprising things I learned about Kanban over the years is how it steers change of behavior among mature teams. It shouldn’t be a surprise that at Kanban Leadership...
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Pitfalls of Kanban Series: Wishful Thinking
I find it pretty common that teams who adopt Kanban try to draw the ideal process on their boards. Not exactly the one they really follow, but the one they’d like to. It is thinking taken from...
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Pitfalls of Kanban Series: Stalled Board
One of signals that something may be wrong with a Kanban implementation is when the Kanban board’s design doesn’t change over time. Of course it is more likely that rapid changes of the board will be...
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MVP Thinking
One of the most valuable goals achieved by Eric Ries’ Lean Startup is popularizing the term Minimal Viable Product (MVP). Of course the concept isn’t novel. We were using the Minimal Marketable...
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What Does Project Management Mean to Me
I was poked to answer the question on meaning of project management by Shim Marom. Since my work, and this blog, evolved away from covering what can be called traditional project management approach...
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Why Kaizen Boards (Typically) Don’t Work
A Kaizen board is a neat concept. It’s a visual tool that keeps track of all the ideas for improvements gathered across a team and then helps to analyze the status of ongoing improvement experiments....
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Why Your Change Program Will Fail
Most change initiatives fail. How many of them? Well, let’s see. In 1995, John Kotter published research that revealed only 30 percent of change programs are successful. Fast forward to 2008. A recent...
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A Fool With a Tool Is Still a Fool
When I first discovered how Kanban in general, and Work In Progress limits specifically, worked as a catalyst for deep systemic improvements it was like an epiphany. Kanban, which at the beginning...
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Why We Fail to Change
I’d love to get a beer each time I hear a story about management imposing a change on teams and facing strong resistance. It would be like an almost unlimited source of that decent beverage. Literally...
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Slack Time
It often comes to me as a surprise that people misunderstand different concepts or definitions that we use in our writings or presentations. Actually, it shouldn’t. I have to remind myself over and...
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