Cadence

One of the best things about developing a Marketing Kanban is it allows you to create a separate cadence for each marketing segment. The old saying is Different Strokes for Different Folks. Why should marketing be any different? The Value Stream Marketing diagram symbolizes exactly how important a cadence is. I use a typical Scrum Read More …

Your Internal Marketing Constraint is still Important

Finding your internal marketing constraint is still important. Most people consider that their constraint in marketing is the number of prospects and in today’s economy it is very true. I believe that places an even great emphasis on managing your Work in Process or prospects. It does little good to increase prospects if you are Read More …

Updated the Lean Marketing House

Updated the Lean Marketing House with a short video that shows the utilization of Value Stream Marketing and the Marketing Kanban.  A couple of glitches in the transition of slides. This is the first time I used MS Powerpoint 2010 to record within the program.

How Marketing Creates Value – Rackham

Neil Rackham author of SPIN Selling, (what I consider one of the top books ever written on selling) discusses how marketing has to create value. As much as I write about Value Stream Marketing, it is always great to listen to the slant than an expert like Rackham puts on it.  In Rackham fashion, he Read More …

Is Agile growing into a larger umbrella?

Recently I had a discussion with Alan Shalloway, the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer and coach in the areas of Lean software development and the Lean/Agile field. He’s a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide, as well as a trainer and a coach. An excerpt from this Read More …

The differences in Lean and Agile

Recently I had a discussion with Alan Shalloway, the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer and coach in the areas of Lean software development and the Lean/Agile field. He’s a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide, as well as a trainer and a coach. An excerpt from this Read More …