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Background For a while now I have been eager to look at the bigger picture of Lean and Kanban beyond the pure software development context. My inspiration comes mainly from the work of Alan Ward, Micheal Kennedy, John Shook and … Continue reading →

Since a couple of years we have been using Cynefin to help our customers to make sense of the different domains of projects they are executing. The motivation for doing so, is that we strongly believe that the one-size-fits-all approach that dominates most … Continue reading →

Title: Manage project and functional teams with Kanban Catalogue: Lean Adaptive Management – Addressing project management challenges with Kanban What this pattern is about: the project organization – from functional to projectized; the resource bottleneck – multi-tasking and shifting priorities; … Continue reading →

The new, new thing Story: Software developers and IT people are a strange lot. Not so long ago they argued that the best way to manage (software) projects was Scrum or some other agile development approach. Some of them were … Continue reading →

Some organizations work in a simple, stable business environment with simple, stable and consistent business goals. Other organizations have to deal with a complex, fast changing business environment where business goals may be contingent or even contradictory. Our current models … Continue reading →

One of the 1st steps in starting a business driven improvement programme is to elicit the business goals. In the ideal(ized) world of improvement theory, standards and models, these business goals are clear, unambiguous and independent. In this idealized world … Continue reading →