Kanban

Most people would rather be wrong than uncertain. When the prospect of being right is questionable, human beings would rather commit to a position and be wrong, rather than hold a posture of uncertainty and avoid commitment altogether. Our…

The Premise A year ago Scrum.org, in collaboration with Daniel Vacanti and myself, published the Kanban Guide For Scrum Teams, a guide that is aimed at helping Scrum Teams take advantage of Kanban/Flow principles and practices. (I wrote an…

Most leaders I work with have a common frustration they express to me: an inability to achieve significant gains in how quick and predictable they are in delivering work to their customers.In my work as a consultant, coach, and trainer,…

Travis Birch has extensive experience in consulting, coaching and facilitation in organizational transformation and team building methods since 2008, with a focus on Agile methods. Travis is highly committed to helping transform people,…

Don’t focus on the negative. The board shows us successes to replicate. I love to cook.  When I make good food and share it with others, they will take a bite and look as excited to eat it as I was to create it.  They might not understand…

Human beings are good at placing roadblocks to success and building plans that cannot be followed. We tend to fall back on our “common sense” or “snap judgement” which often makes us feel like our cavalier decisions were actually…

“What if there’s a task in my options column that just never moves?” This question comes up in almost every class we teach. And we ask, “What if that happens?” We get answers like, “You have to make time for it” or “We need to find out why…

Tonianne and I run the Personal Kanban, Modus Institute, Modus Cooperandi Corp-o-plex pretty much duo-handed. There’s a lot of work. The rules of Personal Kanban apply to us too. We are constantly experimenting with new ways to visualize…

The holidays are wonderful times, but also difficult ones. I was interviewing Deb McGee, a client, colleague, and friend about how our time spent working with her team went. At the end, she turned the interview to the fully “personal” side…

It is not uncommon to hear people say that software development is non-repetitive work where the work always unique and rarely repeat.  It is not uncommon to hear people say that software development is a craft, an act of design and even…