Personal kanban is a simple concept: systematically make your own work visible and use that visibility to improve how you work. Personal kanban is related to other personal productivity systems […]
Kanban Change Management Principle: Encouraging Acts of Leadership at All Levels
Acts of leadership are actions taken by one person, or group of people, that he/she/they believe will help the organization evolve towards agreed-upon pursued improvements. In other words, people (at […]
Agile Certification Programs: Scam or Legit?
Before I write about Agile certification, I want to share a story. When I was still a software developer, I had an awful experience with certification. The company I was […]
Kanban as an Approach to Helping Teams Mature
Kanban is often seen as an evolutionary approach to Agility, rather than a revolutionary one. Unlike other Agile frameworks, that may sometimes promote wholesale changes to the process, the roles, and the […]
What is Agile? – A Beginner’s Guide
When we think of someone who is agile, we think of flexibility, ease of movement, responsiveness to changing challenges and demands. We imagine lightness, nimbleness and grace. A gymnast is […]
On Managing Work – Not People (Part I)
Most leaders I work with have a common frustration they express to me: an inability to achieve significant gains in how quick and predictable they are in delivering work to […]
Acts of Leadership: 10 Things Real Leaders Do (and So Can You)
Leadership occurs as conscious choice carried out as actions. Everyone has the ability to carry out acts of leadership. Therefore, everyone is a potential leader. For leadership to be appropriate […]
Value-Added Work: Basic Lean Concepts
As consultants, one of our first assessment tasks involves discovering the amount of value added work in a client’s organization vs. non-value-added work. In assessing a process, it is important […]