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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.
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Plan a Project in 10 Minutes - or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Little's Law
Chris Young explains how he is using Little’s Law to estimate a project’s delivery rate.