Discussion with the Founder of Kanbanize

Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize, thinks that you can better use out of your Kanban Software. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used for product development and not just change management activities. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean / Kanban outside IT. Read More …

Kanban Software for Lean Management

Are you getting everything out of your Kanban software that you should? Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize, thinks that you can do better. Dimitar is a Lean-thinker and a Kanban practitioner with background in the areas of software development and process improvement. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can Read More …

Agile and Lean Program Primer

Johanna Rothman  is the “Pragmatic Manager.” She provides frank advice for your tough problems helping leaders and managers do reasonable things that work. I am a big fan of Johanna’s owning three of her books and adding a fourth, Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization. This is a short section of my Read More …

Program Management with Agile and Lean

People know Johanna Rothman  as the “Pragmatic Manager.” She provides frank advice for your tough problems helping leaders and managers do reasonable things that work. I am a big fan of Johanna’s owning three of her books and adding a fourth, Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization Business901 iTunes Store Mobile Version Read More …

Random Thoughts on Limiting WIP

The 2 key ingredients of Kanban from a personal standpoint depicted in the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Benson and Barry and in business described in the Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business> by Anderson were two things; visualize your work and limit work in process. From my perspective Read More …

A Storyboard Beginning

Storyboards – Vision Boards – Idea Boards – Task Boards – Kanban Boards We have had all sorts of boards since the caveman were painting pictures on cave walls. I have a hard time crediting Leonardo da Vinci, who put his ideas up on a wall and left them there to age like a fine Read More …