The Toyota Kata - Book Review and Thoughts
A review of Mike Rother's Toyota Kata — and why the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata offer a more sustainable mental model for continuous improvement than most Agile ceremonies deliver.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Kanban for Auditors
Applying Agile/Kanban thinking to audit groups — how the principles of flow, WIP limits, and visualization work in audit contexts just as well as in technology delivery.
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My favorite Excel-based Agile Backlog Templates
Practical Excel templates for agile backlogs — when your team is not yet ready for a dedicated tool, these templates provide just enough structure for sprint planning and backlog management.
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Punctuated Equilibriums, Containers, all things Complexity and how Kanban fits in
Complexity theory and Kanban: how punctuated equilibrium models help explain why Kanban works as an evolutionary change method, using containers and attractors instead of big-bang transformation.
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Book Report - Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools by Reinertsen and Smith
A review of Reinertsen and Smith landmark book on fast product development: the lean principles for reducing time-to-market that still underpin modern agile and Kanban thinking.
Read more →Israeli Culture and the Evolutionary Revolution
How Israeli cultural traits — chutzpah, informal hierarchy, and rapid iteration — make the country a natural laboratory for evolutionary change methods like Kanban.
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