It’s fair to say that I have a complicated relationship with the Kanban Depth Assessment tool. With some excitement, I tweeted this picture from the 2102 Kanban Leadership retreat: The new “shallow versus deep”? #klrat pic.twitter.com/dLH3Gfj1 — Mike Burrows (@asplake) June … Continue reading →
Pulling change through the system
I’m busy finishing the very last chapter of Kanban from the Inside. It’s about the last step of the STATIK implementation process, namely rollout. I treat rollout as a long-running, open-ended process that is very amenable to visual management. In fact, it … Continue reading →
STATIK, Kanban’s hidden gem
As far as I can tell from my extensive research (two Google searches), I’m the first person to notice that the “Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban” could go by a nice acronym, STATIK. Not heard of it? You’re probably not … Continue reading →
Kanban’s agendas on video, renamed
Over the weekend between the LKUK13 and LKCE13 conferences I reworked the three agendas into my “Kanban through its values” talk. It’s now available on video (below). NB: As described here by David, we’ve since renamed them – they’re now the … Continue reading →
One method, three agendas
Working in the US last week with David on some updates to the Kanban curriculum, it struck me soon after writing my last post (where I was thinking out loud) that the Kanban Method speaks to multiple agendas: The continuous … Continue reading →
Kanban’s Organisational Design Principles?
Give or take a word or two, the Kanban method’s Foundational Principles have looked like this for a couple of years now: Start with what you do now Agree to pursue evolutionary change Initially, respect existing roles, responsibilities and job … Continue reading →
