December 4, 2018

Kanban: When and How

Are your delivery times too long? Or are your deliveries unpredictable? Do your customers see you as unreliable and untrustworthy? Are you overburdened? Is your business addicted to saying "yes" and starting too many things all at once? Is your service delivery "fit-for-purpose"? Do you aspire to improve but are unsure how to go about it?
October 26, 2018

Agile Portfolio Management

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) implies that at the portfolio level we need to deal with an entirely new set of challenges: ever changing and fluctuating demand, diverse customers with conflicting priorities, heterogenous capabilities, and mixed types of demand that are incommensurable.
August 23, 2018

Alexei Zheglov’s Kanban Mailbag

Do you have an interesting, challenging question about Kanban? How can you apply Kanban in your unique situation? What more can you do with it? Where should you pay attention to ensure success?
July 26, 2018

Kanban Maturity Model: What’s in it for Me and My Organization

Your customers value timely delivery of good quality products and service. Business managers and stakeholders want to make sure that they see progress and get real benefits from the Agile transformations of their organizations. Employees enjoy working in an environment of respect, transparency and balanced workload.
June 13, 2018

Kanban Practices for Marketing

Strict Scrum may cause more problems than it solves on marketing teams, but by creating their own customized hybrid methodologies these non-IT teams can enjoy their share of Agile success.
May 30, 2018

Lean Business Agility

Klaus Leopold discusses an agile transition where approximately 600 people were involved. The goal was to shorten the time-to- market for initiatives to be able to respond to customer needs more quickly and, as such, improve business agility. In order to achieve this, a reorganization was carried out. Cross-functional teams were constructed so knowledge needed for development was fully available within the team. In addition, the teams were categorized by product in order to remove any dependencies. Visualization of the work, Standup meetings and Retrospectives made the agile transition complete - but the expected improvements did not occur.
May 4, 2018

Busting the Myths of Kanban for Scrum Teams

There are some myths that Scrum practitioners believe about Kanban that may be holding them back from adopting and benefiting from Kanban practices. In this webinar, we will try to dispel these myths as we will explore a few of the beneficial practices that Kanban has that are easily adopted by Scrum teams and empower them to take their productivity to the next level.
March 27, 2018

Strategic Portfolio Management with Kanban

Update: The webinar was held on April 11 2018, here is the recording:
March 8, 2018

How to get your Kanban initiative Back on Track

Like many other change initiatives, Kanban too can falter. You either run into various forms of internal organizational/ cultural resistance. Or, you realize that your Kanban board no longer represents what your team actually does! In this webinar, Christophe Achouiantz explain why that is a good thing and that your Kanban system is giving you valuable insights and prompting you to take action!