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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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How does the performance objectives process change in a Lean/Agile world?

Seems like every January I get questions from HR leaders in organizations I’m working with that go something like this – “We are working on the yearly performance objectives process, and we were wondering whether it needs to change in an agile environment?” The main evolution I see in the Performance management process is leaning …

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“We are already Lean/Agile” – Really?

These days more and more organizations think they are Agile A couple of years ago when you talked to people about agile a common response “why should we”, “it won’t work here”, or “so this is the new fad? What will come next?” Times have changed. And a sign of the fact that agile is …

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Israeli Culture and the Evolutionary Revolution

Revolution outside Evolution inside may be just what the doctor ordered for the impatient Israeli change leader.

Lean/Kanban approach to Teams

To Team or not to Team? If you look at the definition of Kanban or Lean, you wouldn’t find teams anywhere there. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, you can find “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams” Scrum is quite clear about the topic (Quoting the Scrum Guide 2011) “Scrum …

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