Personal Kanban

Who would have thought Personal Kanban would end up being the counter-measure to stalled Kaizen / Continuous Improvement?

Paying attention to Management attention I’ve been talking recently about the challenges of keeping sustainable sticky Continuous Improvement programs. An aspect I’ve mentioned but not emphasized enough is the lack of management attention. In this blog post I will focus on why management attention is so important in improvement programs, why is it lacking and …

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If productivity experts tell me to keep email closed most of the day – why shouldn’t I avoid looking at defects for most of the release?

Isn’t it more efficient to wait till the end of the release and then all together handle all the bugs? One way to think about it is that you probably prefer to answer emails throughout the day rather than at the end; you want to deal with bugs during the sprints. Of course, I fully …

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