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I’ve heard these experience reports a number of times: when a woman joins a team the whole team dynamic changes. Usually there is sense of improvement in team performance too. Unfortunately, most teams I know couldn’t report measured improvement as they didn’t have reliable measures in place. Anyway, the experience is very consistent. It is, […]
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When I first learned about the D. Edwards Deming’s idea that 95% of performance should be addressed to the system and only 5% to the people it seemed totally counter-intuitive to me. Not even the idea itself, but its consequences. I mean a simple thought that you can basically stop working individually with the people […]
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I never fancied the standard standup schema. I mean I see value in sharing what the team did yesterday what the team is going to do today and what are the problems the team has. Except these questions aren’t answered on a typical standup. The first problem is that we answer what specific individuals have […]
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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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