Last week, after two days in Düsseldorf and a short stopover in Vienna, I headed on to South Africa for „Applying Kanban“ and „Improving Kanban“. It was almost like a class reunion because some of the participants who came from all over South Africa had already attended my „Applying Kanban“ course a few months ago. […]

There is an interesting traffic light system at Ultimate Software in Florida. The traffic light logic functions based on a probabilistic forecast. If the probability that the team will work off the backlog by the release date is at least 90 percent, the light is green. If the probability drops to between 70 and 90 […]

Blocker clustering – a topic which I’m working on for several years now, may not be missing in my new book Practical Kanban. In addition to a detailed explanation of how blocker clustering works and what you can achieve with it, there is also an interview with an intensive user in the book: Matt Philip, Director of Learning […]

Klaus reduces the number of levels in his popular flight levels model from four to three. This makes it even easier to track where in the organization it is necessary to make changes in order to achieve the desired improvement.

In this episode I’m talking about my new book “Practical Kanban. From Team Focus to Creating Value” which is a translation of the German book “Kanban in der Praxis”. I decided to self-publish the book on Leanpub and I will release it chapter by chapter. The translation work is basically done and it’s only illustrations […]

Klaus Leopolds new book „Practical Kanban – From Team Focus to Creating Value“ is available on Leanpub. Enjoy reading!

From DB systel’s Skydeck one has a stunning view all over Frankfurt. Even more stunning for me was what was going on on the Skydeck itself on March 20th. After an “Improving Kanban”-Training during the day I had the pleasure to give a talk on Lean Business Agility at the Agile Round Table (ART) of […]

To be honest: I don’t have much of a problem if I „have to“ fly to Florida every year at the end of february/beginning of march. At this time of the year, temperatures in Florida are simply more agreeable than in Vienna and I prefer endless beaches to the snow on our terrace. But that […]

Troy Magennis, numbers cruncher and Chief Nerd Officer is my guest in this episode of Lean Business Agility. We are talking about what numbers to capture, how important it is to not optimize for only one number if you want to prevent sub optimization, and how to measure quality. You can download the mentioned spreadsheets […]

Prioritizing work is quite the topic. Most of the time, work first gets prioritized when it is already in the system and, quite frequently, that leads to perpetual reprioritization. The criteria for reprioritization usually remain unclear, and they often only deal with the fear of possible consequences. However, assuming the priority is already classified with […]