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 →
Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson – Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl
What can we learn about leadership from a Dabo girl? Well, a lot as it turns out. I had the pleasure of hanging out with several Star Trek celebrities over the course of a recent Seattle convention weekend. I was particularly struck by Chase Masterson Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s Leeta, the most featured of shows…
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 →
The Kanban track at #lkna14
It should come as no surprise that the Lean Kanban North America 2014 (#lkna14) conference has a Kanban track. What you might not know is that I’m its chair. I’m taking the opportunity here to say a bit about what we … 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 →
