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Making Work Visible Book Review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis

Book review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis on her new book "Making Work Visible". What are time thieves and what can we do about them?

Manuel Pais
on May 31, 2018
Culture & Methods

Kanban Step-by-Step Guide: from 3-Columns to Flexible Board Design

Implementing Kanban seems rather simple, but making the most of the method is possible only for those willing to experiment with their workflow and walk the extra mile of reflecting the test results into the actual steps. See the most common stages of Kanban implementation and learn how to advance your workflow visualization and control as you increase your proficiency with the method.

Alex Novkov
on May 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban

The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.

Ben Linders Klaus Leopold
on Nov 11, 2017
Culture & Methods

Customize Your Agile Approach: Select Your Agile Approach That Fits Your Context

This is the first in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. This article explores how to make agile approaches work for you: your work, your team, and your organization. It's about understanding the difference between iteration, flow, and cadence and when you might consider each to customize your agile approach.

Johanna Rothman
on Oct 22, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Computest Story: The Transformation to an Agile Enterprise

This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done.

Clemens Riedl Hartger Ruijs Sigi Kaltenecker
on Jun 29, 2017
Culture & Methods

Escaping Method Prison

Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s.

Roly Stimson Ivar Jacobson
on Jun 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

Actionable Analytics for Lean Project Management

Measuring the right KPIs of your workflow is the key for implementing successful Lean project management. Applying these actionable analytics is going to help you track your team's progress towards reaching process perfection, allow you to project future performance and help you spot potential problems in an early stage.

Alexander Novkov
on Jun 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Misaligned Middle and Getting off the Hamster Wheel Using Kanban

At the Agile 2016 conference, Dominica DeGrandis and Julia Wester of Leankit gave talks on helping middle managers adapt to change and how Kanban can be used to identify problems in workflows, which people need to address.

Shane Hastie
on Jan 31, 2017
Culture & Methods

Ultimate Kanban: Scaling Agile without Frameworks at Ultimate Software

Ultimate Software settled on Kanban as its scaled methodology which went hand-in-hand with the company’s culture of autonomy. Teams define their own process and apply policies specific to their own context. Through the innovative use of flow practices and principles, Ultimate has been able to achieve many of the benefits of a Lean-Agile implementation without the use of a heavyweight framework.

Prateek Singh Steve Reid Daniel S. Vacanti
on Nov 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Improving Scrum with the Kanban-Ace Framework

The Kanban-Ace Framework welcomes Scrum, and helps teams improve their level of agility. This article explores how a Scrum team can improve by leveraging the Kanban-Ace Framework. It introduces the Akashi Bridge, a new Kanban-Ace tool that makes it possible for Scrum teams to keep the best features of Scrum while growing to higher levels of performance thanks to Kanban-Ace advantages.

Joseph Hurtado
on Oct 19, 2016
Culture & Methods

Adaptable or Predictable? Strive for Both – Be Predictably Adaptable!

Our efforts to improve software development face the question of what to focus on. Should we govern for predictability without concern of value, maximizing cost-efficiency without concern for end-to-end responsiveness? Or maybe do the opposite and govern for value over predictability, focus on responsiveness over cost efficiency? What we really need is to be predictably adaptable.

Dimitar Bakardzhiev
on Sep 06, 2016