Creating a Lean-Based Agile Experience
This presentation explores the connection between Lean and Agile.
This presentation explores the connection between Lean and Agile.
Agile is here to stay and organizations need to embrace the new wave of agile thinking. But to succeed with Agile and to reap the benefits it can deliver it is essential that you have good governance in place.
Science has finally approved it: Forecasting complex projects is a deception. Moreover, forecasts hinder innovations. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences and psychologist verified in many cases, that forecasting of complex projects is impossible. Yet still, we keep losing time trying to do exactly that.
Kanban gives you the means to understand work systemically and take individual responsibility to act on it. Methods such as limiting WIP, minimising batch sizes, visualising work, shaping demand and creating options are universally applicable, yet no two applications are the same.
Agile is now commonly used in most organisations but most people struggle when the conditions are not in the ideal agile sweet-spot of collocation and small teams. In fact most organisations rarely experience situations that are ideal for agile due to working internationally, with multiple teams and perhaps 3rd party …
Short stories and lessons learned from a waterfall oriented organization that wants to get more flexible but language barriers and time zone difference bring extra challenges for timely delivery – from iterations to multi-year product road-maps, from individual responsibility to multi-project teams.