Transitions should Evolve not be Managed

David Anderson is a thought leader in managing effective technology development. He leads a consulting, training and publishing business at  David J, Anderson & Associates. David may be best known for his book, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. David recently appeared on a Business901 podcast, Change is Best when it Evolves. This Read More …

Change is Best when it Evolves

I’ve realized that I want to focus my own business a lot more on “How can we help you manage change?” rather than “How can we deliver you a new process solution?” because I often feel the existing process probably isn’t that broken. Understanding how to tweak around with it and introduce change in a Read More …

Sales and Service Planning with PDCA

Many of us use different planning instruments and schedulers. Kanban being one of the most familiar methods to readers of this blog. In the last several months, I have written about the Last Planner®  (Last Planner is a registered trademark of Lean Construction Institute (LCI)) and have had several podcast on the subject most notably Read More …

The Pull in Lean Sales and Marketing via the Last Responsible Moment

The conversations below emphasize in a world with a high degree of uncertainty, that we must wait for the “Last Responsible Moment” before committing. David Anderson author of Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business says in an upcoming Business901 Podcast: The whole Kanban thing really came about from the challenge of people resisting Read More …

Resistance to Change, What Resistance?

David Anderson, @agilemanager on Twitter, is a thought leader in managing effective technology development. He leads a consulting, training and publishing business at  David J, Anderson & Associates. David may be best known for his book, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. David takes an evolutionary approach to change. An excerpt from next Read More …

DevOps with Dominica

The DevOps movement is shifting the focus away from separate departments working independently to an organization-wide collaboration — a “systems thinking” approach. It’s about addressing all the work as a whole, versus looking only at the bits and pieces, or only looking at capital versus expense. It’s about work flowing across functions (versus lurking in Read More …