Tag archives: lean
22 December 2011
OlafLewitz
Agile and Lean have a single purpose: to continually challenge the status quo. If you’re not doing that, you’re probably an impediment to it.
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Visiting Business Influencer and Linchpin.
My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
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- 22 December 2011
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Agile with a Purpose,
agile,
Lean Management
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agile,
Kanban,
lean,
management,
Scrum
It’s nearly Christmas: time for wishes. This is how I envision and wish Agile and Lean to be (and I’ve seen it work, multiple times).
Value and Delight, On Time
The two pillars of Lean, as defined by Toyota, are continuous improvement (Kaizen) and respect people. Scrum and Agile are based on the Lean principles and disciplines. Agile and Lean (done right) enable your organisation to create the most value in a given amount of time—and to continuously increase your organisation’s capability to discover that value, shape scope and build awesome solutions.
To achieve predictability and ...
2 December 2011
fivancsich
Embrace to fail fast! Product Owner @riskmanagement Most people are afraid to fail. Shame, is the core of the fear of failure, as psychology research (see Dr. Brené Brown @TED) concluded, which is quite intuitively understandable. Fearing failure is helping you to fail, it does nothing else than that. In ...
Embrace failing fast!
Product Owner @riskmanagement
Most people are afraid to fail. Shame is at the core of the fear of failure, psychologists say (see Dr. Brené Brown @TED). The problem with fearing failure, though, is that it does nothing but help you fail.
In our western culture, shame is a driver to get others to do things. By using shame and guilt as tools, we do not only burden us with an emotional baggage that is wearing us down emotionally, but we also create a lot of dysfunctions as we hide mistakes in order not to be blamed.
Transparency ...
16 November 2011
fivancsich
How long is your backlog? Many Product Owners I coached are obsessed by the length of their Product Backlog. While the fact that I only encountered three female Product Owners in my whole career, might explain parts of this phenomena, there is more to explore about this. A newbie Product ...
How long is your backlog?
Many Product Owners I coached are obsessed by the length of their Product Backlog. While the fact that I only encountered three female Product Owners in my whole career, might explain parts of this phenomena, there is more to explore about this.
A newbie Product Owner is often frightened about his backlog being too short. Having 15-20 User Stories ready for the next Sprint Planning is often hard for a beginner. After a while, it turns into an obsession, as a long Product Backlog gives a feeling of safety.
Guys, and the few Gals out ...
19 May 2011
OlafLewitz
Why does your project need a product backlog? Or, does it actually need one, and why? A discussion on Twitter led me to these ponderings... As always, I'm very interested in your thoughts!
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Visiting Business Influencer and Linchpin.
My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
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Scrum
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backlog,
bdd,
lean,
pull,
waste
Is A Backlog Waste? Yes. A backlog is inventory and inventory is waste. Simple question.
Does that Help?
No. Depending on your system, some amount of waste will be necessary to be able to keep the flow. Where would you pull stories from if there is no backlog? Directly out of the product owner's mind?
Context
If you need a backlog and how much of it depends mainly on two factors:
- the experience of your team and the product's stakeholders (including the level of trust between them), a.k.a. the maturity of your system, and
- the context ...
30 November 2009
marion
Last chance to meet again this year ;-)
Hi everybody,
like discussed here comes the invitation for the Christmas Scrumtisch 2009.
I hope you will find the time beside all the other events in these days.
Date: 21. December 2009
Time: 18:30 Uhr
Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
Topic: One topic will be Kanban
Looking forward to see you to have a nice evening.
Many greetings
Marion
PS. This was the only possible date....
12 October 2009
marion
Lean in a Nutshell - Mary Poppendieck at the Scrumtisch Berlin
Yesterday Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck talked about lean and Scrum at the Scrum User Group Berlin (The Scrumtisch)
The best words describing those two hours are: It was simply great!
Thank you Mary and Tom for beeing with us and sharing your great experiences and thoughts.
Here's the content of the presentation that was all about Lean in a Nutshell:
Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit
- System Thinking
- Technical Excellence
- Reliable Delivery
- Relentless Improvement
The whole presentation you can download here:
29 September 2009
marion
Scrumtisch with Mary Poppendieck
Hi everybody,
as you know, the Scrumtisch with Mary Poppendieck is happening on the 11th of October 2009 at 19:00 o'clock.
Mary will talk about:
Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
If you are interested in joining, please send an email to: scrumtisch@agile42.com
3 September 2009
marion
Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
In October we organize a Scrum User Group Meeting with Mary Poppendieck. She will talk about Lean Management and we will have interesting discussions and will exchange experiences.
TITEL: Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
The Scrumtisch will take place on Sunday 11th October at 18:00 o clock.
I am really happy that Mary made it possible to join the Scrumtisch in Berlin. If you are interested in joining the Meeting, please send an email to scrumtisch@agile42.com.
