Tag Archives: lean

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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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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6D root cause analysis of flow in knowledge work

Posted on November 17, 2013 by

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 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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Lean Kanban Europrean Tour 2012 – Resilient change

Posted on October 28, 2012 by

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 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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Lead time, Loopbacks, Leadership and Learning – 4L root cause analysis of programme performance

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Recently I was asked with a colleague to perform a root cause analysis of a large transformation programme. The expectation of the customer was not to perform an assessment of the programme against a best-practice model but really to find … Continue reading →

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Understanding value

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

Title: Understanding value Catalogue: Lean Adaptive Management What this pattern is about: business alignement around value creation, the adaptive cycle of products and services, understanding value through a sense making framework Maximizing value Story: Wim and his team have worked hard … Continue reading →

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Manage the project end-to-end life-cycle with Kanban

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

Title: Manage the project end-to-end  life-cycle with Kanban (previously was “Accelerate the project flow with Kanban”) Catalogue: Lean Adaptive Management – Addressing project management challenges with Kanban What this pattern is about: the project life-cycle – from idea to implementation; the communication bottleneck – … Continue reading →

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