First of all, the clocks tick differently in Bangkok – the jet lag has really got to me this time. Apart from that, I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I experienced during two Flight Level classes, a top management workshop, an Applying Kanban training and a talk in 12 days Bangkok. My two Flight Level […]

TWiG 1.5 is done. The biggest highlight right away: The simulation is now available in 6 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Russian) and the seventh language (Spanish) is Work in Progress. Many thanks to the TWiG Community for your support! In addition to the languages there are a few smaller and bigger changes […]

“Hooray, we have a board and we are doing standups. We are agile!” That would be nice. Many people still think of a board with colourful stickies when they think of agility. And it’s perfectly clear: Visualizing work and workflows on a board is basically a great thing and an important prerequisite for improvement. However, […]

You get what you’re optimizing for. Deming has already said, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” If we build a work system in which it is important that everyone is working at 100% capacity, then we will get exactly such a system. And now the important point: This does NOT […]

Whenever agile methods are introduced into organizations, discussions about “prioritization meetings” revolve quite quickly. Replenishment, planning, grooming, blooming, zooming and whatever they’re all called. It must be made sure as soon as possible how new work gets into the system. My experience says that the subject of “replenishment” can be initially neglected. I’ve never seen […]

TWiG – The WiP Game is now available in Russian. Many thanks to Ivan Dubrovin and Aleksei Pimenov for the translation. To be honest, I only see a string of funny symbols when I look at the translation, but I’m sure Ivan and Aleksei did a great job ? If someone else wants to translate TWiG […]

How many times during the past conference season have I told you that I gave my presentation somewhere on “Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility”? A lot, huh? That’s exactly how it feels right now: The last few months have been awesome, but now I’m pretty tired from conferencing. That’s why […]

Everyone knows the situation: Someone comes in and says: “We need to make an offer for a project and we need to know when you can finish it”. Or also very high in the race is the question: “Until when can you deliver this feature?” In this episode, I talk to Troy Magennis about how […]

First, there was personal productivity. Then, everyone started talking about Agile teams. Today, it’s time to talk about Business Agility. In a recent podcast I talked with Dima Moroz of  Kanbanize about how one does get an organization to do the right things at the right time. The trick is to move the most effective levers and […]

 In this episode I am talking to Sigi Kaltenecker about the finished Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) training in Barcelona. We reflect on how they experienced the training, what Enterprise in EKC actually means and what the six building blocks of Enterprise Kanban Coaching are.