Upstream Kanban is akin to a good sales process
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Do your cards on the Kanban board reflect customer requests?
By Daniel Ploeg / October 19, 2021
Ensure your kanban board reflects customer requests
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Kanban helps you achieve agility, it’s not an Agile Method
By Daniel Ploeg / October 15, 2021
Kanban helps you achieve agility, it's not an Agile Method
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Organisational agility is a “Team of Teams” sport
By Daniel Ploeg / September 29, 2021
Organisational agility is not a matter of high performing teams, but a "team of teams".
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Do you need Rockstars?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ March 6, 2020
Everyone has probably seen a job ad for a "rockstar" team member, or perhaps it's come under a different name...
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If something’s not working, do something different. If something is working, do something different.
By Daniel Ploeg
/ March 3, 2020
The origin of this statement for me goes back nearly 20 years ago when I attended a technical leadership training...
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Kanban Books
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 28, 2020
A Listing of Kanban Related Books Over time, I've accumulated a number of Kanban books, however I don't think I've...
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“It’s on the Backlog”
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 24, 2020
I've heard this being said a number of times with teams and it often reminds me of the story the...
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Large Batch Death Spiral
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 20, 2020
This is a term I first come across in Don Reinertsen’s “Principles of Product Development Flow†book ("B9: The Batch...
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Uncovering embedded options through a bias for delivery
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 17, 2020
I've recently been thinking about a number of experiences in my career where organisations who have a bias for delivery...
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Use options instead of backlogs
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 12, 2020
Often we become constrained in our thinking by the language we use - a good example is the use of...
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Constant WiP
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 10, 2020
Dealing with Resistance to WiP Limits Sometimes teams will understand the concept of WiP limits and be reasonably open to...
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Per Person WiP Limits
By Daniel Ploeg
/ February 5, 2020
Dealing with Resistance to WiP Limits Another technique for dealing with resistance to explicit WiP limits is to try limiting...
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Right to Left
By Daniel Ploeg
/ January 27, 2020
Dealing with Resistance to WiP Limits This is one of what will become a series of blog posts that discuss...
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Validate Assumptions
By Daniel Ploeg
/ November 1, 2019
I’ve seen a number of common patterns over the years in relation to assumptions. Sometimes using assumptions can be useful,...
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The key to Kanban is the WiP limits
By Daniel Ploeg
/ October 14, 2019
Recently, I ran a session of “The ship game†that was created by @klausleopold (read up more about it in...
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Why use Kanban?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ October 4, 2019
Why use Kanban? Kanban is more than just a "board" - the Kanban Agendas explain why you should start with kanban
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The Melbourne Cup Retro
By Daniel Ploeg
/ September 4, 2019
I’ve been doing this retrospective format for a number of years now and it’s been very useful. Given that we’re...
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Kanban & Cynefin Combined Meetup
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 31, 2019
On 29 August 2019, the Melbourne Kanban and Cynefin meetup groups held a joint meetup for the first time. The...
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Identify Blockers
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 28, 2019
Another major cause for long lead times are blockers. Blockers are things that prevent the flow of value / work...
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Identify Queues
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 20, 2019
I often find teams that are struggling to get their work done, but many of these don’t see the queues...
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LAST Conference – Melbourne 2019
By Daniel Ploeg
/ August 5, 2019
On Tuesday 30 July I attended the LAST (Lean, Agile, Systems-Thinking) Conference in Melbourne. This year I presented a talk...
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Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
By Daniel Ploeg
/ July 26, 2019
This is the final of the three Kanban Change Management Principles. Often this may start to emerge early in the...
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Agree to pursue improvement through evolutionary change
By Daniel Ploeg
/ May 14, 2019
This is the first in what will be a series of short articles about some of the key aspects of...
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