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 …

Having an Effective Conversation

An innovation and strategy consultant, Chris Ertel has years of experience advising senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and large nonprofit. Chris talks about his new book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change in this Business901 Podcast. I thought this excerpt from the podcast was a great “How Read More …

Revisiting the 7 Steps to Improve Your Marketing

Last week I wrote a blog post, 7 Simple Steps to Improve Your Marketing  and promised to update this past thinking into a more updated version. However, I fell short of my promise, Wednesday already and I am not ready to jump all the way to current state. This blog post forced me to reflect Read More …

It’s Not the Way You Do Work, It’s the Way You Think About Work

Get a glimpse into Menlo Innovations joyful and disciplined “agile” methodologies that are the foundation on how they have built our business culture. This Business901 podcast with Menlo founder and chief Agilist, Rich Sheridan discusses the Menlo WayTM.  At this date I am sure there is only limited seating left for this action packed day Read More …

DevOps is About Bridging the Gap

Dominica DeGrandis has spent most of her career synchronizing interactions and dependencies between teams, Dominica is keen on improving the way teams work together to help bring alignment to the entire organization. Dominica holds a BS in Information Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. She is an independent trainer, coach and international speaker. She Read More …

State of Readiness in Kanban

When flow gets interrupted or gets a hiccup and it stops. It just seems like it never gets going again. But part of that, I always think about has got to do with having it ready in the queue, and having it ready to be processed. You talked about managing the queue. Is that similar Read More …