Theory of Constraints Discussion

The Business901 Podcast featured John G. Schleier, Jr. and James F. Cox III authors of the upcoming book, Theory of Constraints Handbook. In this authoritative volume, the world’s top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers Read More …

Foundations of the Menlo Culture

Rich Sheridan and his company, Menlo Innovations, are attracting companies from around the globe, including Toyota, to learn about the Menlo Way and their crazy-unique business model that creates a “Joyful” experience for employees, customers, and vendors.  Related Podcast: It’s Not the Way You Do Work, It’s the Way You Think About Work Download PDF 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 …

Origins of Lean Kit Kanban and a few Kanban Basics

Bandit Software was founded in May 2009 by Chris Hefley, Stephen Franklin, and Daniel Norton. They all worked together once upon a time at the Nashville-based healthcare giant, HCA, Inc. and remained friend for years, long after leaving to pursue other opportunities. One day they just decided it was time. Time to strike out on Read More …

Kanban Lessons from Anderson

David Anderson, author of the 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 of Read More …

Chris Hefley on Kanban

Chris Hefley offers a perspective from not only a producer of a product for Kanban but as a software developer himself. A fresh perspective of not only Kanban but Lean in Software Development, this is not a consultant or an author of a how to book, but someone that is in the trenches living it Read More …