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The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study
Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and technical team. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then moving to Kanban.
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Single Piece Flow in Kanban: A How-To
James Shore and Arlo Belshee present an approach to Kanban using simultaneous phases by introducing work cells based on two queues: what you are doing and what you are going to do.
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The Easy Road to FLOW Goes through a Town named LEAN
Why does the software development community do a better job using lean product development methods than other communities? Perhaps, because it is willing to adapt lean methods to its problems.
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From Agile Development to Agile Operations
Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, helping to bridge the development and operations worlds.
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Second Generation Lean Product Development: From Cargo Cult to Science
Don Reinertsen explains why the ideas of lean manufacturing, though perfect for the predictable work of manufacturing, are inadequate for product developers.
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Jeff Patton on Lean Product Discovery
The most difficult part isn't delivery, but the discovery of products that are truly valuable to the people that use them. Jeff Patton explores applying Lean thinking to product discovery.
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Lessons from Target Value Design
Hal defines and explains the 9 foundational Target Value Design practices that lean designers embrace to produce coherent work product without the usual shortcomings of the historical practice.
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Re-thinking Lean Service
Taiichi Ohno discovered some counter-intuitive truths as he developed the Toyota System. Similar counter-intuitive truths wait to be discovered by leaders of service organisations.
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Kanban Adoption at SEP
We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition.
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The Tyranny of "The Plan"
Predictability in the face of variability comes from establishing a reliable workflow and coupling it with pull scheduling. It comes from creating an adaptive, learning system, not a planned system.
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The Agile PMO: Real Time Governance
Learn how you can create a real-time governance capability that anticipates challenges, makes timely course corrections, and seizes opportunities to maximize the business impact of IT investments.
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Scaling Agile into the Enterprise
We have found a stark and forbidding truth: an Agile team in a non-Agile enterprise will not long survive. What does it take to align an organization to Agile and Lean principles and practices?