What’s different about an A3?

In a past podcast, I had Daniel Matthews author of The A3 Workbook: Unlock Your Problem-Solving Mind and ask him why he favored A3s over 8D or some other problem solving tools. The answer I received was much different that what I expected. Daniel learned what it takes to make a truly successful Lean transformation Read More …

Past Thoughts on Lean and Agile

James Coplien in a past Business901 Podcast (Related Podcast and Transcription: Is Architecture Needed in Agile?) gave an interesting overview of Lean and Agile. Not sure I can do it justice with just this excerpt but see if interest you enough to go to the long version above. You can find Jim at Gertrud & Read More …

Corey Ladas, the Forgotten Person in Kanban

Co-author Maritza van den Heuvel co-author of Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement, a publication of Modus Cooperandi discussed Scrum and Corey Ladas’s contributions to Kanban. Related Podcast and Transcription: Tales of Continuous Improvement Joe:  You’re still working in a Scrum discipline, I think. Is there still merit in that process or in using both? Maritza:   Read More …

Personal Kanban Forever

Tonianne DeMaria Barry and Jim Benson’s wrote Personal Kanban it seem like a decade ago. I asked Jim during a podcast, “Do you think that Personal Kanban and the book has identified the both of you as people from this time forward?” Jim Benson: Yes. You know, process is all evolution. Living is, we’re always Read More …

Is your Backlog Stale?

I was re-reading the transcription of a podcast on Personal Kanban and this topic of backlog jumped out at me. How do you deal with your backlog? How long does something get to stay in it? Youmay want to skip the blog post and read the entire transcription or listen to the podcast: Pascal Pinck Read More …

If They Don’t Invite You till 60% – Show Up Early

Research from Google and CEB titled The Digital Evolution in B2B Marketing provides new insight into buyer behavior, and it challenges the conventional wisdom. According to the study, customers reported to being nearly 60 percent through the sales process before engaging a sales rep, regardless of price point. – Forbes We have heard this many Read More …