Mind Maps on Leadership and Teamwork for the Lean Agile Crowd

Looking for DIY Teamwork and Leadership training? Start with these books (since they are all fables, they make for great listening) Patrick Lencioni Library (Five Temptations of a CEO; Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive; Five Dysfunctions of a Team; Death by Meeting). If you are a Lean Startup, Agile Software Development or even a Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing slide deck from Agile Cincinnati

At Agile Cincinnati last week, I had the opportunity to present the Lean Sales and Marketing presentation, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean Anymore! The reason I picked this title is that so many identify Lean with waste reduction. I view Lean and PDCA from the aspect of knowledge creation. The first part of my slide Read More …

Lean Agile Software Train, Part 2

Dean Leffingwell author of Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) was the guest on the Businss901 podcast. I talked to Dean so long that I divided the podcast into two parts. The 1st part, Lean Agile Software Train, part 1 published last Tuesday. That podcast Read More …

Lean Agile Software Train, part 1

Dean Leffingwell author of Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Agile Software Development Series) was the guest on the Businss901 podcast. After reading this book, I thought it was an outstanding contribution to improving the agile team and environment. One Amazon reviewer categorized it as  “The organization of the Read More …

Becoming an Agile Family thru Kanban

Maritza van den Heuvel. a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner has been part of a software development team changing from waterfall to agile over the last three years, first as lead tester and now as the Product Owner. She is also a mom, with the ongoing challenge of keeping family life organized with Read More …

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 …