Yeret on Agile and Kanban

Yuval Yeret is a practicing Agile and Kanban consultant/coach for AgileSparks in Herzelyia, Israel. He coaches individuals and organization in their path to Agility and Engineering excellence, focusing on Scrum, Lean, and Agile Engineering practices. Yuval Yeret will be speaking at the upcoming Lean Software & Systems Conference 2011 (LSSC11). Yuval provides R&D organizations management Read More …

A Strategic Collaborator’s use of Personal Kanban

Pascal Pinck works as a Strategic Collaborator with individuals and teams who face high levels of uncertainty in their market context. More specifically, he educates and coaches leaders and team members who are working to: increase performance through agile and lean thinking improve distributed decision-making and delegation heighten trust and transparency build a culture of Read More …

Coplien on Agile, Lean and Architecture

Jim (“Cope”) Coplien was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Why Architecture is needed even in Agile? We discussed his new book,Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development but I found Cope’s view on Lean and Agile quite interesting. Even if you listened to the podcast, this transcription is worth a look. His thoughts on “Japanese Read More …

Does your Value Proposition speak of the Customer Experience?

When most organizations think about their value proposition, they think about the tangible benefits that the organization offers or how much better they are in a certain area versus the competition. It might even include their history, technical expertise, latest technology, commitment to customers, etc. In the book, Strategy from the Outside In: Profiting from Read More …

The Future of Marketing is Lean

The sales and marketing structure has drastically changed. The typical structure still used by many is when competition was not as great and technology was not the force that it is today. Most of the time sales and marketing sold solutions without every defining the customers problem. The typical sales forecast was derived on increasing Read More …

Using Agile in Management

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, Should you Manage your Organization with Agile Techniques?. My guest was Steve Denning’s, author of the new book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010). An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  Software is a knowledge field. You can iterate Read More …