Kanban for Marketing Kick-start Example

Here is an example of a fairly typical Marketing Kanban board which can be useful for marketing teams that are taking their first steps towards implementing agile marketing in practice using kanban. You can print it out and use it as a source of ideas & inspiration as you evolve your own board. It is …

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Agile Marketing Validation Board

“Validated Learning Over Opinions and Conventions” A couple of weeks ago I was helping kickoff a team of 8–10 Agile Marketing teams. The kickoff spanning a couple of days includes: Agile Marketing training High level planning of their first quarter Iteration planning for their first agile iteration While doing this I saw some gaps between …

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Agile Release Train Leadership Team — Servant Leadership In Action During PI Planning

Last week I helped facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning for an Agile Release Train (ART) practicing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). One impediment for this ART was that although the leadership team ROAMed risks in PI Planning as well as continued to manage the flow of risks/issues using a ROAMing Kanban Board throughout PI execution, …

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Scaled Agile Marketing

It’s Agile Marketing Time One of my interesting engagements these days is with a corporate marketing group in one of the top global enterprise technology companies. They have a very serious agile initiative in product development and their CMO basically said “I think I need Corporate Marketing to become agile as well”. When I asked …

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