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Linking Flow, Value and Capability
I wrote recently that I have come to think about Flow, Value and Capability as the primary impacts I hope a Kanban System will have. Flow, Value and Capability are not independent entities, however,...
View ArticleI’ll be at the Boston Lean Party #LSSC12
I’ve just been putting together my personal program for LSSC12. This is the main US Conference put together by the Lean Software and Systems Consortium, which will be in Boston from May 13-18. Its...
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The Kanban Thinking Picture
I’ve recently settled on a visual representation of Kanban Thinking which has been working well. The structure took shape when I realised that Flow, Value and Capability were system impacts. Those are...
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The Value Impact
The impact of value is difficult to quantify, and putting a currency number is not as simple as it is with cost. The challenge is even greater for organisations which are not selling products, such as...
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Portfolio Kanban
I recently wrote an article for GOTO Magazine which has just been published its latest issue. Open publication – Free publishing – More .net Given that it is embedded within the magazine, I thought I’d...
View ArticleMy CALM Beta Pre Work
I posted recently about by involvement in CALM Beta in Boulder. One of the things we added to the registration process was some “pre-work”. The intent is to find out something about the people...
View ArticleLean Flow Bag Stuffing Videos
The last few years I’ve helped out with the bag stuffing at the Agile200X conference. It started out as a fun experiment in applying our lean and kanban craft in a different context. It has turned into...
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Speaking at Lean Agile Scotland
How could I not attend a conference named after me? OK, maybe not named after me, but at least relatively local. How could I not attend a conference being held on my birthday? OK, I could also spend my...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Waterfall
I was recently joking with some colleagues about what an “Introduction to Waterfall” course might look like. It turned out to be quite a simple proposition, so I quickly threw some slides together...
View ArticleManagement Improvement Carnival
I’m honoured to have been asked by John Hunter to host an edition of his Management Improvement Carnival. That means that I get to pick a number of links to posts and articles on relevant topics. Here...
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From Capability to Potential
At Lean Agile Scotland last weekend I was chatting with Gojko Adzic over dinner, and one of the many topics we covered was whether capability was the right word for one of the three impacts I describe...
View ArticleThe Flow Impact
As I wrote yesterday about some upcoming Rallying adventures, I get to work on some exciting projects. A recent one is the “Art of Agile Business” book which is being put together in an iterative and...
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Understanding Change with Cynefin
I have written a number of posts on systemic thinking, which I believe is at the heart of Kanban Thinking. I’m currently referring to systemic thinking, rather than Systems Thinking, in order to try...
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A Review of Impact Mapping
I mentioned that I had a great conversation with Gojko Adzic at Lean Agile Scotland. During that discussion, Gojko also described a technique he call Impact Mapping. Since then has published a short...
View ArticleThree Kanban Reminders
I seem to have had a number of conversations recently which have all had some common themes. The general pattern has been that someone wants to talk about Kanban and let me know how its not working for...
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Kanban Values, Impacts and Heuristics
A recent thread discussing the values behind kanban on the kanbandev mailing list inspired a couple of great blog posts by Mike Burrows on “Introducing Kanban Through Its Values“ and “Kanban: Values...
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Heuristics for Building the Right Thing
On Monday I had the privilege of spending the day with some really smart people. Organised by Gojko Adjic, other attendees included Chris Matts, Henrik Kniberg, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Gabby...
View ArticleAgile Central Europe Keynote
I’m really honoured to have been asked to give the closing keynote at this year’s Agile Central Europe conference in Kraków, Poland, 15-16 April 2013. ACE has a strong Kanban theme this year and I am...
View ArticleLimiting WIP? Or Containing the Work?
I’ve thought for some time now that WIP limits are a special form of explicit policy – one that is called out specifically because it is a core concept behind kanban systems. That has made be...
View ArticleVisual Management – Creating A Kanban Multiverse
This is an article I originally wrote for the Management 3.0 site in 2010. As it is no longer available there, I am republishing it here in its original form other than a few minor edits. At the Lean...
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