When is there to much information on a page?

I asked Mick Campbell, MBA is co-founder and Managing Partner of OPPM International (The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper) that question in a past podcast. Related Podcast and Transcript: Easy, Not Simple Project Management Joe: Has anyone ever claimed that there is too much information Read More …

Production Improvement: Crank it up and Go Faster

Remember the classic TV segment of Ethel and Lucy at the candy factory? “That Lucy segment is a classic example of production and the mindset of “Hey, let’s turn this up and crank this dial and go faster,” said Bob Petruska in this video segment. Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting will be working his 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 …