Jul 30, 2011 · Flow

Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world

How to reduce WIP in legacy systems already full of in-flight work: practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later.

Feb 16, 2011 · Agile

Agile Lowest Common Denominator: The Weakest Link

Why Kanban surfaces the bottleneck instead of hiding it, and how to use the weakest link as a forcing function for real improvement.

Oct 5, 2010 · Kanban

A simple elevator-pitch explanation of Kanban for Scrum practitioners: what Kanban adds, what it changes, and why the two are complementary.

Sep 15, 2010 · Agile

Slack isn't wasted capacity: it's what makes improvement, learning, and sustainable delivery possible during an agile/Kanban transition.