Category Archives: kanban

Not all kanban is alike

Posted on July 17, 2014 by

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 by

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 by

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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A serendipitous rediscovery

Posted on May 6, 2014 by

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 →

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A careful analysis of work organization underlying Scrum and Kanban

Posted on August 4, 2013 by

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 by

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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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability with Kanban

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

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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When change is the bottleneck

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

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 →

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Discovery and the whole systems Kanban

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

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 →

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