Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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 →How Israeli cultural traits — chutzpah, informal hierarchy, and rapid iteration — make the country a natural laboratory for evolutionary change methods like Kanban.
Read more →Managing by exception with a visual board: surfacing only what needs attention rather than reviewing every work item. A simple practice that dramatically improves flow.
Read more →Connecting team developmental modes (forming/storming/norming/performing) to the RightShifting model — how teams progress from process-oriented to performance-oriented and what Kanban enables.
Read more →Applying Kanban to recruiting: visualizing the hiring pipeline, limiting WIP on candidates, and using flow metrics to improve time-to-hire and reduce candidate drop-off.
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A lean-Kanban approach to team organization: focusing on flow, eliminating hand-offs, and designing teams around the work rather than around functional specialties.
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