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Understand How the Work Evolves

Growing organizations can fall into the trap of thinking scaling is easy.  Simply add functional departments to break the work into compartments, flow it through the system and voila, infinite scaling!...

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How Functional Silos Can Damage Your Company

We’re a small company and Pete officially handles customer support calls.   A few minutes ago the phone rang but Pete had just stepped out to grab a coffee.  Nobody reacted.   When we get voicemail in...

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Health, Family and Work

Joyce was a firecracker!  She was very passionate about her work and had been with the company for many years.  Sometimes her enthusiasm could be perceived as complaining but it was hard to argue with...

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Kanban Reboot, Part I

The team I’m working with now has been using Scrum for a few years. Over the first couple of weeks I noticed we were having a bunch of challenges and based on my experience I knew Scrum wasn’t a good...

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Why Job Titles are Hurting Your Organization

I am very vocal with my opinion that job titles are stupid. I understand why they exist and I still think they are stupid. I have many examples over the years about why I came to the conclusion that...

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Playing Get Kanban with an Experienced Team

One of my most popular posts is “Kanban Isn’t the Point” where I wrote about the four stages of competence and how people may flow through the stages with respect to learning Kanban. Recently I had the...

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Designing an Enterprise Portfolio Kanban Board

Our EKB (Enterprise Kanban Board) has gone through 5 major revisions over the last year. We started our using a traditional Kanban board to measure flow and on-boarded all work across all departments....

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