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As an experienced Agile Consultant, certified in several methods and frameworks including Scrum, SAFe and Kanban I have a distaste for magical solutions. Nothing is perfect, everything has flaws. Yet, I still recommend a Kanban Variation to most of my customers. Why? Kanban, contains the wisdom of the Lean movement, …
In any large organization, and that includes businesses and government, the people who run that organization constitutes their Bureaucracy. Inside every Bureaucracy you will find two kinds of people: Some people who are actually devoted to the mission of the organization and that is to serve customers who need their …
In the last five years SAFe or the Scaled Agile Framework has experienced tremendous growth and adoption at large organizations. The evidence is not just in surveys, such as the large one conducted by Digital AI which I share below, but also by simple word of mouth that confirms many large organizations are adopting …
Over 10 years ago, a lifetime for the technology world, Henrik Kniberg, famous for the Spotify Model, and his brilliant videos for Product Owners gave us a guide for Kanban teams that do software development. A few years later Yuval Yeret did his own revision to Henrik’s guide but focused this time on Marketing. Both …
Sometimes people ask me, Joseph what’s the simplest Kanban board I could use, one that may even work with a small team? On those occasions, I am tempted to recommend Trello, but the fact that it does not even have support for Work-in-Progress limits, or mentions Kanban support anywhere dissuades me. Trello seems to …
Today the vast majority of people think Kanban looks like that picture on top, just some rows and columns of an unusual looking to-do list. And they would be mostly wrong, that’s literally the tip of the iceberg. Kanban, unlike Scrum deals with systems, large or small. But it thrives in large systems where many teams …
Fake Deadlines are the biggest life sucking hole in the history of business. Fake Deadlines do not follow reason, they are illogical and capricious. Fake Deadlines waste the most valuable asset of a company: their people. Fake Deadlines are evil because they do not lead by inspiration, they lead by fear. Fake Deadlines …
“Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.” Reed Hastings, Netflix In the last 3 years, Agile has leaped beyond Software Development & IT to find receptive ears in the offices of important CEOs and their management teams. This time unlike what happened in the early …
Agility is a higher concept than just Agile. One we should embrace more. When a business pursues #agility it opens wide avenues for improvement, not just through one framework or method, but an open-minded approach to get better, and never stop improving. Agility goes beyond technology, or Agile Transformations. It …
The philosophy behind Agile, Lean and Kanban can go beyond business projects or products to actually inspire our life, our dreams, and personal projects. Guided by this fact, and also by the writings of Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, I give you the 12 Commandments of Done, hoping they can inspire you to conquer your …
