Kanban Lessons Learned from a Software Developer – Ebook

Recently I had Chris Hefley, President and Co-Founder Bandit Software on a special edition of the Business901 Podcast. This is a transcription of the Podcast. The Bandit Software team will be sponsoring a booth at the upcoming Lean Software and Systems Conference in Atlanta, April 21-23. (http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/) Kanban Lessons from a Software Developer Bandit Software Read More …

Lean Kanban from a Software Developer

Recently I had Chris Hefley, President and Co-Founder Bandit Software on a special edition of the Business901 Podcast. Bandit Software is the maker of an electronic Kanban tools for Lean Software and Systems development teams called Lean Kit Kanban. This conversation starts with a discussion of where Kanban stands today in the software community and Read More …

put things off until the last responsible minute – Personal Kanban

One of the Personal Kanban tips that Jim Benson gave us in the Business901 Podcast: We basically create different projects, and those projects, aren’t atomized until the last possible minute. So we keep things in an aggregated form as long as we possibly can, which is a fancy way of saying that we procrastinate. But Read More …

Sales & Marketing Work Together?

Many organizations would say not at all. Others believe they do, but really don’t know. A few will say very well, but I would believe these really, really don’t know. Why since they are so intertwined do they not work well? A few reasons: Marketers are typically introverts and Sales are extroverts. Marketers deal with Read More …

Improve Communication, Have more meetings

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 made easy with Coveys 4Disciplines

Being on the Kanban path this week took me back to thinking about the 4 Disciplines of Execution by Franklin Covey. This training is one of the best workshops I have ever attended and overall some of the best training I have ever received. It is staggering some of the numbers that they quote such Read More …