“Ready to take… personal responsibility?” A short story about unfair fight between hype train and quality snail
I remember it was winter. January. Eight years ago, when I saw the trailer of a new, fresh game from CD Projekt Red with catchy, yet annoying closing screen: Of course, we had to wait. “Witcher 3” was still the game-in-process and everyone knew THEY had no capacity to...
Better Prioritization – Sequencing & Classes of Service Explained
We don´t perform a specific activity to prioritize work for kanban systems. Instead we practice dynamic prioritization, selecting items of work on-the-spot, based on risk, or other desirable outcomes such as fairness, good customer service, or value. The term...
Kanban at Scale – How our Guidance has Changed
Since the early days of the Kanban Method our guidance on where to start in your organization has been consistent - start with a customer facing service! Why? Old news: Start with a customer-facing service With a customer-facing service you have the opportunity to...
Scheduling work in Kanban with Dynamic Reservation Systems
Reservation systems have been observed in Kanban implementations since 2008. They are used immediately upstream of a delivery kanban system, to indicate the desired start date of the request for work (a work item). 2-phase commitment Reservation systems facilitate...
Seven Lessons About Dependency Management
What are the lessons we can learn from my recent article, The Tyranny of the Timebox Revisited, and the release of our infographics for Triage Tables and Dependency Management? Why is it that organizations using Agile methods such as Scrum...
A change… may be just around the corner
Long, long time ago... I spent 9 years learning Latin. First 4 years – every Friday, another 5 years – every Tuesday each of us had to stand up and recite our weekly ration of proverbs, grammar rules, poems, and translations. What do I remember after 12 years? Mostly...
Shipping KMM 1.2 – FOB, Left on the Dock, & Still in the Warehouse
There comes a day in the life of any product development when the decision is made to freeze the source code, fix only critical defects, and ship it! For the Kanban Maturity Model release 1.2, that day came in early September – there would be no more...
We don´t need to evolve
I´ve been studying more evolutionary theory recently, and how it applies to non-biological entities, such as buildings and businesses. This is the first of what will probably be a short series of blog posts providing new, or deeper insights into the application of...
Kanban Maturity Model – Run the Engine of Change (Practices Map)
How to use the KMM architecture and the practice map to strengthen organizational culture and achieve greater customer satisfaction and business outcomes.
New Recipe for Success
In 2010, I published the Recipe for Success in Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. Ten years later, I´ve been rethinking my approach, and reacting to the poor advice I see from the Agile movement, obsessed with reorganizations, and...
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