Is it just a Marketing Funnel

Do you think it is Scrum? Do you think it is Kanban? Do you think it is a Marketing Funnel? …or is it all three? Or maybe Agile? This is an empirical view of Value Stream Marketing. The drawing is reflective of a Scrum sprint. Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and 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 …

Are you focusing on your customers conversations

  Over the past decade and more, the Internet has played an ever increasing part of everyone’s marketing. The recent rapid increase is due in large part due to the popularity of Social Media, even though the Internet has been around for close to three decades. With the advent of smaller devices, texting and twittering, Read More …

From a Small Restaurant to Apple, Learn how they Capture and Analyze Data

Dr. Kai Yang was the guest on the Business901 Podcast. Our conversation addressed the message of his latest book, Voice of the Customer: Capture and Analysis (Six Sigma Operational Methods). I found it interesting that Dr. Yang has worked with Apple and questioned him about it. Black T’s and blue jeans didn’t seem like a 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 …