As an Individual: How much Slack is Enough?

How much slack is enough, and where does that start becoming wasteful? We talk about Lean and do it as individual but we need slack. It’s hard to get your arms around it. -jd Dan Markovitz: If you think about Taiichi Ohno, the first thing he had anyone do was stand in a circle, right, Read More …

Starting A Process of Improvement

In last weeks podcast I asked Troy Tuttle a question on how does someone get started with process improvement and he responded: Troy Tuttle: Yeah, that’s a good question. I’m going to give you kind of my Anderson’s Kanban or the David Anderson’s version of Kanban answer where really the context of that, of wherever Read More …

Coaching Agile Software Teams

Troy Tuttle, KCP, is the owner and a principal consultant at KanFlow. He is a practicing Agile software developer and Lean-Agile-Kanban coach to software teams, project managers and executives. He helps software professionals and teams improve through approaches that support better clarity, understanding, and continuous learning. Troy is the founder of the Kansas City Limited Read More …

Are You Minimally Viable Agile?

I have to ask you about a topic you’ve been working on. It’s an MVP type thing, but it’s called a Minimally Viable Agile. I guess that would be MVA. What is that about? This is an excerpt from Next Weeks Podcast Troy Tuttle: I’m working on this to do some talks on MVA, Minimally Read More …

Pull Planning

One of my favorite and a podcast that ended up influencing me quite a bit was with Gregory Howell. At the time, Greg was the managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. The Last Planner® (sometimes referred to as the Last Planner® Read More …

Software and Product Development Leads into HR?

The founder of OdBox, Matt Barcomb, partners with organizations to help leadership teams develop and deploy strategy, optimize product management and development, and evolve traditional HR functions into modern talent development practices. Matt can be found on LinkedIn or on Twitter. Related podcast and transcription: Matt Barcomb’s Journey into Lean Software An excerpt from the Read More …