· Kanban
My thoughts on how Kanban and TOC Critical Chain relate
How Kanban and Theory of Constraints Critical Chain overlap and complement each other — both address bottlenecks and WIP, but from different angles. A practitioner comparison.
Kanban
- · Kanban
Slides from my Large Scale Kanban Talk at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011
Slides from the Large Scale Kanban talk at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011 — fractal Kanban patterns and how to scale flow-based systems across enterprise teams.
- · Flow
Commitments and Energies in a Kanban System - Lessons from LKBE 2011 That Still Matter
Revisiting my 2011 Lean Kanban Benelux talk on commitments, flow energy, routing, and predictability, with practical guidance for today's product and portfolio environments.
Improving Testing Flow / Throughput - A Key Pillar of Managing The Feature Factory
How flow-based approaches reduce testing bottlenecks and stabilization costs — using WIP limits, "done is done" standards, and systematic bottleneck elevation to deliver release-quality software predictably.
- · Flow
Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world
How to reduce WIP in brownfield/legacy systems that already have high in-flight work — practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later approaches.
- · Kanban
LSSC11 - My impressions/takeaways
Impressions from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2011 — sessions on flow, complexity, Kanban metrics, and the future of lean thinking in software.