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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Deploying the Netflix API Service
Sangeeta Narayanan goes over how Netfix got to the current continuous delivery state, the lessons they learnt and the successes they enjoyed along the way.
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Capacity Planning - TOC Applied to Creating Organizational Portfolios
Chris Matts leads an experimental workshop on using the Theory of Constraints to create an organizational investment portfolio.
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The Kanban Iceberg: How to Scale Beyond the Surface of a Shallow Implementation
Matt Philip discusses how to deepen the understanding of Kanban with depth-of-kanban assessments and through a series of experiments, emergence of a new role — the flow manager — and standard work.
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Navigating Politics: Why Lean/Agile Can Make It Worse & What to Do about It
Katherine Kirk draws lessons from on-the-ground experiences and eastern and tribal philosophy in order to illuminate practical and realistic ways of dealing with team politics.
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The Girl who Played with Paper
Lynne Cazaly explains how to apply visual maps, models, metaphors, templates and processes that help build buy-in, boost contributions and collaboration, and make communication a breeze within teams.
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Not All Kanban Is Alike - Delivery Versus Discovery Kanban
Patrick Steyaert discusses how (traditional) Delivery and Discovery Kanban are similar but different along with several examples of Discovery Kanban systems based on dual strategies.
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Learning to See, Learning to Lead; The Vanguard Method
David Joyce discusses how organizations can solve their super-ordinate problems through the use of the Vanguard Method.
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Uncertainty, Complexity, the Cynefin Framework and Knowing Enough to Act
Greg Brougham introduces the Cynefin model and related practices which can be used to address uncertainty in the modern world.
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The Community that Values Participation and Improvement
Karl Scotland tells the story of a world wide athletic community, wondering what would happen if there were a similar community of small teams focused on work knowledge.
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Lean Leadership Principles: Stepping Beyond Visual Management
Simon Morris presents his leadership principles: know when a team is dysfunctional, attack problem causes at all levels, make decisions by consensus, encourage responsibility and engagement.
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Why Should I Care About Your Case Study?
Thomas Epping considers that case studies, even successful ones, should not be blindly applied everywhere, but one should take only what’s useful for one’s circumstance.