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I’ve heard that question quite a few times after I shared my feedback with somebody: “What am I supposed to do with such feedback?” The question may imply that feedback e.g. wasn’t “actionable” or something. Anyway, I have an answer for that. It goes: “Whatever the hell you want.” Yup. Exactly that. In fact this is precisely what I’d love…
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Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is such a nice idea. Let’s build something that is as small as possible and at the same time viable, which translates to “provides value and thus make sense to build it.” Two adjectives in a mix where one counterbalances the other and vice versa. Since I currently run a web software house I hear the…
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One of the discussions that happened during Don Reinertsen’s product development workshop was the one about absorbing turbulence. Absorbing turbulence is a metaphor for how well a team deals with unplanned variability of the process. These would be situations like arrival of a bigger batch of features to build, or especially complex work items, etc. Normally, every team is suitable…
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One thing that we are doing at Lunar Logic is we evolve toward no management model of leadership. This means a lot of small changes that all happen with the same attitude at heart: to distribute more and more decision-making power across the whole company. This by the way also means systematically stripping down the management from that power. The…
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There’s an ongoing discussion that I occasionally refresh with Markus Andrezak on usefulness of applying Kanban to manage portfolio and generally to the process of figuring out which products should be built. What is Portfolio One obvious thing that we can start with is focusing on a specific context. After all portfolio is a pretty loaded word and it is…
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There’s a question I get asked pretty frequently: which conference I would recommend to attend. Of course the answer is always contextual but surprisingly often after some further inquiry I recommend Lean Kanban Central Europe. On one hand it’s the content. Even today I remember all the keynotes from the first LKCE three years ago. That’s how much that stuck.…
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I was never a fan of recipes. Even less so when I heard that I have to apply them by the book. What I found over years was that books rarely, if ever, describe a context that is close enough to mine. This means that specific solutions wouldn’t be applicable in the same way as described in the original source.…
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I like the way Jerry Weinberg defines leadership. Leadership is a process of creating an environment where people become empowered. Empowerment I don’t really like the word empowerment as it is frequently used in the context of making people empowered. The way I understand empowerment such thing can’t even be done. You can’t empower me to do something. What you can…
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There is one thing that seems to be present in pretty much every company strategy these days. Given the opportunity, they want to grow. Obviously not every organization is successful at that but scaling up is treated as a default option and a universally desired goal. In fact, it is sometimes assumed so obvious that it doesn’t even gets discussed.…
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My focus for past months drifted a bit away from the core of Kanban. I either focused on more enterprisey applications of Kanban in the context of portfolio management or on what’s blood of every company, which is organizational culture. Every year though I use Kanban Leadership Retreat as a perfect occasion to reset my focus a bit. It wasn’t…
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