Author Archives: Patrick Steyaert

Brickell Key Award 2015

Posted on April 3, 2015

I am very excited and honoured to announce that I am nominated for this year’s Brickell Key Award. For those of you who don’t know the Brickell Key Award, it is the way of honouring people that have shown leadership and contributions in … Continue reading →

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Not all kanban is alike

Posted on July 17, 2014

In the series of “not all work is alike” and “not all change is alike” I could not resist the temptation to write a blog titled “not all kanban is alike”. Mainstream kanban systems (which I will refer to as delivery kanban) as … Continue reading →

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Not all change is alike

Posted on June 3, 2014

After the opening session at the Kanban Leadership retreat in Portugal it is clear that change is again a big topic at the retreat. Mike Burrows’ session proposal is on visualising change (have a look at his recent blog post). … Continue reading →

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Visual project management

Posted on May 30, 2014

I did a webinar for LeanKit where I explore the why-how-what of Visual Project Management. Below you can find a link to the slides. Visual Management Webinar – LeanKit & Patrick Steyaert from LeanKit

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6D root cause analysis of flow in knowledge work

Posted on November 17, 2013

I have been working on a little framework for analyzing why work is, or is not, flowing. The result can be seen below. It takes the form of an Ishikawa, or fishbone, diagram. The purpose is to look at a … Continue reading →

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A careful analysis of work organization underlying Scrum and Kanban

Posted on August 4, 2013

The Scrum vs Kanban discussion is quite a debate with many different viewpoints including the viewpoint that it is a pointless debate. I personally think that something useful can be extracted. In order to do so we need to look inside the … Continue reading →

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Using narrative to research Kanban implementations

Posted on June 30, 2013

Update to this post (Oct. 30, 2013) During the months after this blog post, Arno Korpershoek and myself have worked on an implementation of a narrative research tool (as described in the blog post) for lean agile organizations based on … Continue reading →

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Managing risks and options with discovery Kanban

Posted on April 24, 2013

At the London Lean Kanban day last month I gave the following presentation on discovery kanban.

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Lean Kanban Europrean Tour 2012 – Resilient change

Posted on October 28, 2012

Here’s the slides of my presentations at LKNL2012 and LKFR2012:  

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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability with Kanban

Posted on June 28, 2012

Resilience “Imagine you are on a boat docked in a calm harbor and you want to quickly carry a brim-full cup of water across a stateroom without spilling. Now imagine the same situation but with the boat in rough seas. … Continue reading →

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