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One of interesting bit of work that is happening in Lean Kanban community is Hakan Forss’ idea of Kanban Kata. Kanban Kata is an attempt to translate ideas of Toyota Kata to Kanban land. A simplified teaser of Kanban Kata is that we set a general goal, a kind of perfect situation we unlikely ever […]
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The biggest challenge when applying Kanban on portfolio level is how to introduce WIP limits. Kanban without limiting work in progress will always be shallow. In fact, many would argue (me included) that it is not Kanban at all. The problem is that typical methods we use to limit work in progress on a portfolio […]
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Given the fact that my most recent project is done for the client that lives in a galaxy far, far away (OK, just on the other end of Europe) an electronic Kanban / task board is a default. And yes, this means my heart bleeds as I’m an uncritical whiteboard lover. It means that we’ve […]
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It’s an interesting observation for me: people keep asking me to speak about Portfolio Kanban. London, Krakow, Chicago… it seems that for me Portfolio Kanban is going to be the topic to speak about this year. When I started with Portfolio Kanban it was an experiment – a tool I wanted to play with to […]
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I’m on cloud nine. I was nominated to this year’s Brickell Key Award. For those of you who don’t know what that is, Brickell Key Award is the way of honoring people that have shown leadership and contributions in Lean Kanban community. I wouldn’t fancy the award that much if not the list of people […]
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As much as I love visualization as a technique that gives pretty much any team handful of quick wins, I do consider limiting work in progress the bit that makes or breaks team’s long-term ability to improve. Introducing, fine tuning and maintaining WIP limits is arguably the most difficult part of Kanban implementation, yet the […]
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I’m not a fan of estimation. I try to avoid it when I can. However, I’m not orthodox. I won’t be telling everyone that refusing to estimate is the way to go. I admit that I’m now in a comfortable land of time and material contracts that give more flexibility to the clients and more […]
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There’s one thing about me that virtually every boss I’ve had so far has tried to correct. If you look at me all my emotions are painted on my face. You just can’t fail guessing whether I’m happy, worried, tired, excited, etc. I’ve heard so many times that I should do something about that since […]
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I’ve read and heard a lot advice on running better retrospectives. I’d even go that far to say that if you speak at agile event and you want an instant hit “how to run a good retro” should be very high on your list of potential topics. After all, this whole “getting better” thing seems […]
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One of Kanban practices is introducing explicit policies. It is the policy that probably gets least publicity. I mean I could talk hours about visualization and don’t even let me started with WIP limits thing. Managing flow gives me a great starting point for the whole debate on measuring work and using the data to […]
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