Agile Central Europe Keynote

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April 5, 2013
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I’m really honoured to have been asked to give the closing keynote at this year’s Agile Central Europe conference in Kraków, Poland, 15-16 April 2013. ACE has a strong Kanban theme this year and I am going to ask whether Kanban isn’t just commons sense? Kanban: Isn’t it Just Common Sense? Many [...]

Agile Toolkit Podcast on Visual Management

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February 13, 2013
by Karl Scotland in
Last June I spent the week in Las Vegas at the Agile Development Practices and ended up hanging out with Bob Payne and doing a podcast with him where we talked about visual management techniques, including Visualisation TIPs. Bob has just published that podcast. Enjoy!

Heuristics for Building the Right Thing

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February 12, 2013
by Karl Scotland in
On Monday I had the privilege of spending the day with some really smart people. Organised by Gojko Adjic, other attendees included Chris Matts, Henrik Kniberg, Mary and Tom Poppendieck, Gabby Benefield, Jeff Patton, Aaron Sanders and Olaf Lewitz. The theme of the day was exploring how we can help [...]

Kanban Values, Impacts and Heuristics

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February 6, 2013
by Karl Scotland in
A recent thread discussing the values behind kanban on the kanbandev mailing list inspired a couple of great blog posts by Mike Burrows on “Introducing Kanban Through Its Values“ and “Kanban: Values Understanding And Purpose“, which have in turn inspired me make some updates to the Kanban Thinking [...]

I’ll be at Agile India 2013

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January 22, 2013
by Karl Scotland in
I’m really excited to be able to make my first visit to India to participate in the Agile India 2013 Conference, which is 27 Feb – 2 Mar in Bengaluru. I’ll be giving a talk on “5 Kanban Leverage Points: Making a Project Impact“, running a workshop on “Applied Kanban Thinking“, moderating a panel [...]

2012 Year In Blogging

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January 3, 2013
by Karl Scotland in
As a WordPress, and Jetpack user, I had a 2012 annual report generated for me. A quick summary is: 58000 views 30 posts 528 views on Feb 2nd. The top 5 most-viewed posts were: Kanban, Flow and Cadence What is Cadence The Science of Kanban – Introduction Running the Ball Flow Game The Anatomy of [...]

Three Kanban Reminders

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December 5, 2012
by Karl Scotland in
I seem to have had a number of conversations recently which have all had some common themes. The general pattern has been that someone wants to talk about Kanban and let me know how its not working for them in some way. When I enquire further, and dig into the background some more, I’ve found that [...]

A Review of Impact Mapping

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November 17, 2012
by Karl Scotland in
I mentioned that I had a great conversation with Gojko Adzic at Lean Agile Scotland. During that discussion, Gojko also described a technique he call Impact Mapping. Since then has published a short book on Impact Mapping which I highly recommend. An Impact Map can be thought of as a structured [...]

Understanding Change with Cynefin

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October 28, 2012
by Karl Scotland in
I have written a number of posts on systemic thinking, which I believe is at the heart of Kanban Thinking. I’m currently referring to systemic thinking, rather than Systems Thinking, in order to try and avoid any confusion with any particular school of thought, of which Systems Thinking could be [...]

The Flow Impact

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September 27, 2012
by Karl Scotland in
As I wrote yesterday about some upcoming Rallying adventures, I get to work on some exciting projects. A recent one is the “Agile for Business” book which is being put together in an iterative and incremental manner. Bob Gower, who is spearheading the initiative, wrote a blog post last month about [...]
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