Curing Stale Stand-Ups with Ask Kanban!

The daily stand-up is the most prolific meeting among technology and product teams worldwide. For many teams, their stand-ups have devolved.

Most stand-ups are stale. In response, we created Ask Kanban!, a game for curing stale…

Must the Stand-Up be Daily?

As an Accredited Kanban Trainer and coach, I work with teams every day who are evolving their understanding of Kanban as well as the level of maturity at which their teams practice it. One of the most frequent questions I hear from the teams with whom I work is:

The Four Conclusions of an Idea

Not every idea is treated equally. We decide some aren’t appropriate to start right now, some will never be started, and some we start. Although it’s unfortunate, not every team finishes what it starts. Mature teams gain a clear understanding of these behaviors and evolve…

The Approver’s Promise

Sometimes it’s smart to introduce delay into your work. Delaying the start of low value work in favor of work that has a high value, for example, is a great use of delay. However, it’s rare that teams use delay intentionally to produce a desired outcome. Delay often happens by accident…

Detecting Idle Work

If we are honest, work doesn’t always flow smoothly. If we are really honest, we often have no idea if work is flowing smoothly because there isn’t a clear way to measure “smooth”—or is there?

Bigger Profits with Kanban

I realized recently that there are very few Accredited Kanban Trainers who have held the position of Chief Technology Officer. As far as I know, I may be the only one.

I’ve created a 16-minute video which is intended to provide a high-level overview of the…