Managing Customer Value
Scoot Anthony is one of my favorite authors and has authored several books to include Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change and The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. His advice about innovation in this video supports the message that I have been discussing recently not only in Read More …
I know what you’re thinking – another meeting? There is nothing though that improves communication in a project: A meeting even more so then a Kanban board. Any team working toward a common goal will benefit because this practice will improve your communications. The biggest resistance in meetings are because they’re poorly run. Daily scrum Read More …
Kanban just seems too simple to be that effective, or is that the beauty of it? Listen to Jim Benson discuss the intricacies of not only Personal Kanban but how Kanban can be used effectively within industry. Jim was seldom lost for words as you will see and his passion of the subject is obvious. Read More …
Kanban scheduling can be simply stated as demand scheduling. In Kanban, the products are produced based on actual usage rather than a forecasted usage. Therefore, a Kanban scheduling process to be considered a true Kanban the production process it controls must: Only produce product to replace the product consumed by its customer Only produce product Read More …
One of the tenants I am convinced of is that Work in Process is wasteful and unproductive. If you look at this from a Sales and Marketing Process it basically says that the more people you have in your sales and marketing funnel the more unproductive you are. A blog recently by Jim Benson of Read More …
The INVEST acronym from the User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development book by Mike Cohn I think serves as a good guideline for defining User Stories. The following is from Doug Seven’s take on INVEST. INVEST stands for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Small and Testable. Independent: The story should not carry with it dependencies, Read More …