Real Kanban Questions #2: How does the team know that customers are factoring...
This Real Kanban Question is based on a Twitter conversation with @ThinkBA. One set of answers (David’s) assumes the existence or creation of a process step for assessing architectural impact: Make...
View ArticleComing in June: Kanban comes to London!
After the big conference month of May comes a June that is packed with Kanban-related training opportunities in London. There’s something for nearly everyone: a one-day event you can send your manager...
View ArticlePortfolio stuff (sic) at LSSC12
This is followup #2/n to my LSSC12 debrief. As I mentioned in my debrief, I organised an evening meeting on portfolio “stuff” to take place after the speakers’ reception. What kind of an idiot arranges...
View ArticleKanban: Thinking tools for portfolio-level problems
This is followup #4/n to my LSSC12 debrief, probably the last of the series (n = 4) but who knows. If you haven’t already read followup #2 Portfolio stuff (sic) at LSSC12 please do so now, what...
View ArticleMore than mere tinkering
Not that I have ever needed much excuse to tinker, but LSSC12 has prompted me to make some significant updates to the materials for DJAA‘s 2-day class Successful Evolutionary Change with Kanban. And I...
View ArticleWhat’s your strategy for success?
“All projects must have a strategy for success” So starts a thought-provoking post from Glen Alleman‘s blog Herding Cats; several months later and I’m still coming back to its central idea. Ask...
View ArticleWhen will this project be ready? (and some better questions)
A couple of good articles have caught my eye recently, both extolling the virtues of Critical Chain Project Management (or aspects thereof), namely: Getting Reschooled in Project Management – How to...
View ArticleMy 2012 in books
I’ll get to my book of the year in a moment, but I begin with the two books that have had the most direct influence on my work in 2012. The first is Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential...
View ArticleMy notes for the Portfolio Management panel at #lkfr13
Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting on a panel on the subject of portfolio management at Lean Kanban France. Our facilitator was Thomas Lissajoux and my co-panelists were Ian Carroll, Chris Young...
View ArticleKanban from the Inside: 15. Economic approaches to flow
We’re at chapter 15 of Kanban from the Inside, on economic approaches to flow. This excerpt expands on the third of three principles of Real Options as identified by Chris Matts and Olav Maassen [1,...
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