Kanban ·
Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant
Why treating sprint plans as binding commitments undermines trust, velocity, and team health — and what a healthier take on planning looks like.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Kanban ·
How Kanban and TOC Critical Chain Relate
How Kanban and Theory of Constraints Critical Chain overlap — both attack bottlenecks and WIP, but from different angles. A practitioner comparison.
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How do you scale Kanban beyond a single team?
How do you scale Kanban beyond a single team? A practical look at fractal flow patterns, explicit policies, and what changes at the portfolio level.
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Commitments and Energies in a Kanban System
Revisiting my 2011 Lean Kanban Benelux talk on commitments, flow energy, routing, and predictability — and what still applies today.
Read more →Using Flow To Manage Testing Bottlenecks
How flow thinking reduces testing bottlenecks and stabilization costs, and why the same constraint-thinking matters as AI shifts the bottleneck downstream.
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Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world
How to reduce WIP in legacy systems already full of in-flight work — practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later.
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