Its early wednesday, I’m at Long Beach for LSSC11 – the main US conference for the Lean Software Systems Consortium also at LimitedWIPSociety.org – the community practicing and leading Lean and Kanban in software development. The main conference starts this morning and my talk is this afternoon, but so much has happened already, I’m really glad …
A couple of months ago I ran into Think Testing – a new magazine for testers in israel (published in Hebrew). I found it very interesting, and decided I want to contribute. My article has been published in issue number #3. It tries to provide some insight on the experience of a tester when his …
For those interested in my talk about Secrets of Flow, here it is: [slideshare id=7598563&doc=yuvalyeret-flowforagileil11-yuval-v1-0final-110412053436-phpapp02] see some pictures from the event as well:
Lean Software and Systems – 2011 Brickell Key Award Nominees. I’m so humbled by it and by the great cadre of nominees I’m considered with, don’t have much to say … Just that I hope this will help increase visibility of what we are doing around Kanban and Flow here in Israel and in AgileSparks. …
Interested in what the hell is this flow I’m going to talk about in Agile Israel 2011? Check out this video – in hebrew this time… Secure online registration is now open, and readers of the blog can take advantage of 10 speaker discount coupons I got. use yycom0001 to get the discount. If you use …
I’ve been asked to deliver a pre-LSSC11 webinar on the topic of Lean Product Development flow. I’m going to introduce an approach to mixing Lean and Agile in order to achieve end to end agility. This is a major focus of my work in the recent 2 years with AgileSparks clients. Register for the Webinar …
A client I worked with about 2 years ago mentioned that in senior management training, his organization was emphasizing Fair Process as a key tool for enhancing decision quality and team commitment. It sounded interesting, but I didn’t have a chance to dive too deep into the concept. Over time, it made more and more …
I was recently interviewed by Joe Dagger from the Business901 blog/podcast. His list of interviewees is impressive, it’s an honor to appear there. Anyhow, the podcast went live today at Yeret on Agile and Kanban :: Business901. Some of the topics we spend some serious time on were aspects of Planning, Commitment, Estimation in various Agile/Kanban …
Recently, the issue of motivation is permeating my work as an agile consultant. And not surprisingly, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink is the main model I’m currently excited about. Today, while a colleague was describing the Autonomy Mastery Purpose (AMP) model in our Agile Forum meeting, I thought of …
One of the concerns often raised when people hear about kanban is that the weakest/slowest link will slow down the whole chain. For example if testing is a bottleneck what will happen is that the whole chain will accommodate its pace. Similarly in scrum a team that actually does realistic planning will commit to a …