The Lean Change Method: 1000 Mile View

Why Lean Change? There are number of key risks to any change initiative faces, the lean change method is an…

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Refining a Change Canvas to Represent a Minimum Viable Change

Using a change canvas helps change agents deliver on the first promise of the Lean Change method, that change be…

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Using Story Mapping For Defining Business Requiremets

Story mapping is a lightweight and collaborative approach to defining and structuring user requirements. Story mapping involves describing the system…

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Client Reviews: From Waterfall to Agile

We are currently transforming a large organization with 200+ people to adopt new agile behaviors. The transformation started off with…

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The Demise of IT Business Analysts

IT departments typically staff themselves with a group of folks known as business analysts. These folks have the responsibility of…

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Five Step Illustrated Guide to Setup a Kanban System in an Enterprise Organization

We’ve been through a significant number of Kanban implementations and our approach has largely been based on the approach outlined…

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Throughput Planning – Why Project Managers Should Like Lean and Agile

Project managers in IT have a tough job. I’ve been there myself, and I have also coached a large number…

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What Scrum, Kanban, RUP, and ITIL All Have In Common (which causes them to fail)

Putting aside the considerable differences in these methods, RUP, CMMI, Scrum, etc are foremost all products, built using a traditional…

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