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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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I’ve been working as a manager for the vast majority of my career. Teams I led consisted between a couple to 150 people, most of them being bigger than 20. Throughout that time I’ve had my own office once. And I don’t think it’s been a good idea. I decided to move to the office […]
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Gemba walk. On one hand I just love the idea to go and see. In fact, whenever I have an issue to solve or a question to ask I prefer to move my butt and go meet someone instead of writing an email, chatting on IM or calling. […]
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“Price has no meaning without a measure of the quality being purchased.” ~W. Edwards Deming It always fascinated me how price was the main axis of the game of closing software development deals. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, pricing is used in total isolation from any other criteria, especially quality. It was like […]
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