Discussion with the Founder of Kanbanize

Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize, thinks that you can better use out of your Kanban Software. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used for product development and not just change management activities. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean / Kanban outside IT. 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 there a Lack of Commitment in Agile, Kanban?

A while back, I had a podcast with Yuval Yeret is a senior Agile Consultant on the AgileSparks team who focuses on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. See what Yuval says about commitment… Related Podcast and Transcription: Kanban and Scrum: A Mixed Approach Joe:  That’s interesting, because commitment does seem that when Read More …

Is Kanban Iterative or Linear?

Mattias Skarin  author of the book, Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both put it this way… Joe: If that prioritization is changing all the time, it seems more like an iteration, and it’s hard to get an iteration within Kanban because Kanban seems to be a linear process. Can you elaborate on Read More …

What are the Boundaries of Kanban?

I discussed the “Boundaries of Kanban” with Markus Andrezak in a past podcast. Most people always want to expand the boundaries of everything they talk about. So, I had to ask him, “What are are the boundaries?” Related Podcast and Transcription: The Boundaries of Kanban An excerpt from the conversation: Markus: What happened was that Read More …