Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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Despite my best efforts, I couldn’t help but get involved in Lean Kanban Central Europe again this year, and have even taken on more of a role by helping co-chair the Kanban track. Its always a great event (one of my favourites) because the people and content are such high calibre. This year looks to be no different. This year I’m also …
Last week InfoQ published an interview that I gave with Katherine Kirk at Agile2014 in which we talked about the Kanban Canvas, why I came up with it, and how I use it. Unfortunately I can’t embed it here, so please use the following link to find it: Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas.
I have a new workshop which I’m running in the next few months – “Kanban Thinking – Becoming a Learning Organisation“. Its an evolution of the work I have been doing privately with organisations, taking the Kanban Thinking model, and teaching how to apply it using the Kanban Canvas. Registration is now open, so if you’d like to attend either …
I’m going to be at Lean Agile Scotland again next month. I had to miss it last year, but I really can’t decline the opportunity to be at a conference named after me! I’m running a workshop on “Building a Learning Organisation the Kanban Way”. Here’s the abstract: In a world of Big Bang Disruption, the need for learning organisations is …
I’m going to be at Agile2014 in Orlando this year – the first time for a few years – and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with lots of people I haven’t seen for a very long time. If you see me, make sure you say “hi!”. This post is to highlight a couple of things I’ll be doing there, or …
I received my WordPress 2013 Annual Report a few days ago and there are a couple interesting things I noticed in it. First, the top 3 most popular posts are all from three years ago, or older. In particular, the most popular post continues to both surprise and please me. Its the “Kanban, Flow and Cadence” post where I first …
The Lean Systems Society is hosting a conference in Boulder in September, and as part of the event we are capturing stories about people’s experiences with Lean-Systems. This post is to give some more details on what its all about. First, who are the Lean Systems Society? Essentially we are a non-profit organisation trying to bring diverse Lean-Systems thinkers together, …
I recently met up with Joe Krebs in London and recorded a podcast with him. Joe is organising the Agile Day NYC conference which I will be speaking at in September (straight after RallyON). As well as the conference, we talked about Kanban Thinking, the subject of my talk there, and the Lean Systems Society Reactor Conference, which is also …
In September I’m going to be involved in the second RallyON Europe conference which we are running in London again. This year’s theme is “Scaling an Agile Organisation”, and I expect that it will be another great event. Here are 3 reasons I’m particularly looking forward to it. Bjarte Bogsnes Keynote. I’ve known Bjarte for a few years now, and …
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 problems we are trying to solve in software and product development are …