Kanban discussion with David Anderson, eBook

David Anderson, author of the recent book, Kanban appeared on the Business901 podcast and added 50 minutes of Kanban discussion. This is a transcription of the podcast. David is a thought leader in managing highly effective software teams. He is President of David J. Anderson & Associates, based in Seattle, Washington, a management consulting firm Read More …

Kanban, could we call this podcast anything else

David Anderson, author of the recent book, Kanban appeared on the Business901 podcast and added 50 minutes of Kanban discussion. David covered a lot of ground in this discussion and answered a lot of questions for me that his book raised. David is a thought leader in managing highly effective software teams. He is President Read More …

Marketing Kanban 104, The EPic Card

We fill our Marketing Calendar with post it notes but what do we put on them? In the early stages of constructing your Kanban, we stay away from creating a task board. We are really looking for a more empirical view of the process. Listen to a brief overview:  

Marketing Kanban 103, The Marketing Calendar

The next step I use in developing a Marketing Kanban is to develop a Marketing Calendar. The quickest way to learn about an organization’s marketing is simply create a visual Marketing Calendar. Look at how we do it: When you think about your present marketing efficiencies, does your thoughts wander this direction: It’s not working, Read More …

Turning your Marketing Cycle into Kanban

One of the first steps that I recommend in developing your Marketing Kanban is to create a Value Stream Map of your Sales or Marketing Cycle. Many people struggle with this concept and in a workshop I asked them to create their best known channel without really discussing their marketing tactics at all. I ask Read More …

Bootstrapping the Kanban

I just finished reading Kanban by David Anderson, @AgileManager and was very pleased with the content and especially the delivery. David is truly an expert in Kanban and I highly recommend the book for any discipline looking at introducing Kanban. What I enjoyed about the book more than anything else was the delivery of the Read More …