Helping with Kanban - Thoughts from reading Helping by Edgar Schein
Edgar Schein's Helping reframes the coach-client relationship — applied to Kanban coaching, it clarifies when to push, when to wait, and how to build genuine helping relationships.
Change Management
- · Agile
Sensing and increasing manager engagement during an agile change initiative - guest post by Yaki Koren
How to sense and increase manager engagement during an agile change initiative — keeping managers in the lead using pull-based techniques so they captain the ship rather than just approve it.
- · Agile
The downsides of agile - guest post by Yaki Koren
A guest post exploring the real downsides of agile for managers — why people who like control find the move to agile difficult, and what it actually takes to make it work.
Pixar Pitch for Kanban - a SANE way towards enterprise agility - my LKUK13 talk
Using the Pixar pitch structure to make the case for Kanban as a sane path to enterprise agility — talk from Lean Kanban UK 2013.
Starting with Managers Kanban (also called Product Stream Representative Kanban)
The Managers Kanban pattern — starting lean/agile transformation with the management team rather than individual contributors, using end-to-end kanban systems to build leadership buy-in and understanding before scaling to teams.
Who would have thought Personal Kanban would end up being the counter-measure to stalled Kaizen / Continuous Improvement?
How personal kanban for leaders and management teams became an unexpected counter-measure to stalled kaizen — creating discipline of execution for improvement actions that otherwise get deprioritized.