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Category Archives: kanban
Not all kanban is alike
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
Posted in Discovery Kanban, kanban, Lean, Lean startup
Tagged discovery kanban, kanban, lean, lean startup
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Not all change is alike
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
Posted in change, complexity, cynefin, Discovery Kanban, kanban, Uncategorized
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Visual project management
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
A serendipitous rediscovery
When I met Sean Murphy of SKMurphy at the Lean Startup conference in Dec of last year I could not have imagined that this encounter would put an overlooked topic back on our agenda. Sean and I got into a … Continue reading
A careful analysis of work organization underlying Scrum and Kanban
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
Posted in kanban, Lean, Uncategorized
Tagged agile, continuous flow, demand leveling, distributed cognition, kanban, knowledge work, lean, pacemaker, pull, scrum, swarming, Toyota Production System, work cells
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Using narrative to research Kanban implementations
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
Posted in change, complexity, kanban, Lean, Uncategorized
Tagged agile organization, Change, Fitness landscapes, kanban, narrative inquiry, Narrative research
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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability with Kanban
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
Posted in complexity, kanban, panarchy, resilience
Tagged adaptability, kanban, lean, resilience
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When change is the bottleneck
A couple of weeks ago I was doing an in-company Kanban workshop. I knew the team that participated in the workshop from before. I had been working briefly with them a few years ago. From the moment people started coming … Continue reading
Discovery and the whole systems Kanban
The whole systems view and deliberate discovery The focus of Lean is on delivering value. The purpose is to deliver value for the business that pays for it. Value of the product is not in the delivery but in the use … Continue reading
