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.
Traditional performance reviews clash with agile team dynamics. How lean-agile organizations evolve performance management to align with flow, team-based work, and continuous feedback.
A diagnostic for organizations that think they are already agile. True lean/agile is more than Scrum sprints and Kanban boards — it requires a functioning improvement engine and culture.
How Israeli cultural traits — chutzpah, informal hierarchy, and rapid iteration — make the country a natural laboratory for evolutionary change methods like Kanban.
A lean-Kanban approach to team organization: focusing on flow, eliminating hand-offs, and designing teams around the work rather than around functional specialties.
A direct take on why treating sprint plans as binding commitments undermines trust, velocity, and team health — and what a healthier relationship between planning and accountability looks like.