In this episode I talk to Karl Scotland about strategy deployment and how to align peoples problem solving skills to the organisations key challenges and opportunities. Karl Scotland helps businesses become Learning Organisations.
In this episode I talk to Thomas van der Burg about the development and application of custom-built test methods and equipment for medical devices in a Pharmaceutical Company. Thomas reports how the department has managed to dramatically reduce the lead time on their now almost five-year journey to an agile way of working. They achieved […]
In this episode I speak with Nicolas Mercier and Frédéric Paquet about an Agile transition in a government agency with 12,000 people involved. The initial request was to make 150 teams agile and that’s what they did. However, 150 agile teams is not a real outcome and that’s why Nick and Fred started to work […]
I am regularly asked a question during customer visits or training sessions: How do you deal with constant disruption? I have already written about this, such as the blog article on white noise and we cover the topic also in the book Kanban Change Leadership. For many years, though, I more often recommend the “Dude of […]
Something is happening in the TWiG country. I have just released version 1.4 . You can download it from the TWiG website. In addition to smaller bug fixes, there are two major changes: (1) Thanks to Florian Meyer, there is a facilitator’s guide, which greatly helps with the simulation setup and (2) the Realization Time […]
You want to know how it works when ~50 development teams with ~900 people in total don’t estimate but know when stuff is going to be finished? Then watch episode 024 #continuouseForecasting of Lean Business Agility with Prateek Singh. Prateek Singh is Principal Agile Coach at Ultimate Software in South Florida, USA. Subscribe to the […]
It’s been a year since the first video was published in my Video Blog Lean Business Agility. What is more obvious than to draw an annual balance.
Klaus Leopold publishes a simulation to experience WIP-limited pull systems. The simulation is licensed with Creative Commons and can be downloaded for free.
More than anyone else, project leaders and mangers ask me again and again one question: “Does a Kanban board replace a project plan?” The answer is, as is often the case with me, “It depends.” First of all, a plan mostly describes the timeframe of a project in advance. The question is for which type […]
When a day like 31st December happens to be a Sunday, you are very unlucky if living in Austria. Grocery stores are usually closed Sundays with only a few exceptions. Those exceptions already tend to be crowded on ordinary Sundays, and even more so if it is New Year’s Eve. All the people who didn’t […]