· Kanban
My thoughts on how Kanban and TOC Critical Chain relate
How Kanban and Theory of Constraints Critical Chain overlap and complement each other — both address bottlenecks and WIP, but from different angles. A practitioner comparison.
Kanban
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- · Kanban
How do you scale Kanban beyond a single team?
How do you scale Kanban beyond a single team? A practical look at fractal flow patterns, explicit policies, and what changes at the portfolio level.
- · Flow
Commitments and Energies in a Kanban System - Lessons from LKBE 2011 That Still Matter
Revisiting my 2011 Lean Kanban Benelux talk on commitments, flow energy, routing, and predictability, with practical guidance for today's product and portfolio environments.
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Improving Testing Flow / Throughput - A Key Pillar of Managing The Feature Factory
How flow-based approaches reduce testing bottlenecks and stabilization costs — using WIP limits, "done is done" standards, and systematic bottleneck elevation to deliver release-quality software predictably.
- · Flow
Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world
How to reduce WIP in brownfield/legacy systems that already have high in-flight work — practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later approaches.
- · Kanban
LSSC11 - My impressions/takeaways
Impressions from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2011 — sessions on flow, complexity, Kanban metrics, and the future of lean thinking in software.