August 20, 2017

Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Transformation

Solving the Insulation Challenge of Managed Transformation
August 17, 2017

ESP Compared to Kanban Method

David Anderson is a thought leader and pioneer in the field of Lean/ Kanban for Software Development and managing effective software teams. (View David’s profile) We are honored to publish this blog post from David where he compared Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) with Kanban.
August 16, 2017

SwiftKanban Feature Update – August 2017

We have introduced two new enhancements with the SwiftKanban August update:
August 14, 2017

Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale - not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts.  Here are some interesting highlights from there.
July 13, 2017

SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – July 2017

With the release of SwiftKanban July update, we have introduced new usability and functional enhancements.
June 28, 2017

SwiftKanban/ SwiftESP for AKTs and KCPs

Last week, my colleague Navin and I had the pleasure and - indeed - the honor of meeting some of the best minds in Europe at the Kanban Leadership Retreat at Mayrhofen, Austria!
June 26, 2017

Allocating WIP Limits for a Kanban System

I have seen people focus a lot on what the WIP limit should be for a Value Stream stage of a Kanban system. However, once the WIP limit is known, I haven’t seen much thought going into where to put those WIP limits. Hence, this blog!
June 23, 2017

How Cognitive Overload Impacts Productivity?

Fast forward twenty years and we are sitting in a digital marketing review meeting. We were presented with so many dimensions, so much of information, data, graphs, correlations. It was overwhelming, to say the least. How could we possibly make sense of this and make an informed decision after analyzing so much of information?
June 20, 2017

Flow Efficiency: A Great Metric you Probably Aren’t Using

We are deeply honored to publish this post on Flow Efficiency written by Julia Wester for Lean Kanban University. In this blog, Julia explains the importance of the Flow Efficiency metric, how to calculate it and how to improve it in a Kanban system.