One of my favorite exercises in our Product Owner Program involves asking the students to review a sample feature canvas and compare it to the features they currently prepare for PI Planning. I measure the effectiveness of an exercise by the commitment to action that follows the...
As I'm teaching today*, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed a discussion.
This post was originally created in 2020, and was recently...
If only our executives would commit, we could…
“They” don’t support what we’re trying to do…
Interesting words. What do you really want from “them”? Who is this “them” anyway? Is it one leader? Is it a team? Is it really the...
“If you don’t have great teams, you’ll never have great ARTs”
Mark Richards
Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in the second ‘reprise’ episode after the initial reprise of SPC’s Unleashed with Lean Thinking...
“I think a good SPC has to be a coach, too … You have to use the language of the people who have to become agile because agile isn’t the goal. It’s using the agile things to become faster, to become better, to have better user feedback”
Niko Kaintantzis
In this episode, we turn our attention to...
"I love the people; I love my community. But it’s hearing new problems and understanding where they fit in the landscape of how people are trying to advance agility in their company. For me, that’s always the best part of the summit!"
Eric Willeke
The Berlin...
“Not having good DevOps is a lot more expensive than having DevOps”
Mark Richards
In this enlightening podcast episode, Niko takes the reins as the host, guiding Ali, Stephan, and Mark through a rich discussion on the essence of DevOps and its implications for modern...
"In most cases, the portfolio itself is under a fog of war. You can't actually see what's going on unless you take your telescope and really zoom in on an area"
Eric Willeke
This episode concludes the initial six-part arc laying the foundations of lean portfolio management. The first...
“What’s the moment when you can help people understand the cause of some pain they’re in and offer them something that’s going to help with the pain?”
Mark Richards
Rebecca’s back from Disneyworld! Mark’s discussion with two of...
“Can you integrate, and do you do that very frequently on a cadence? Yes, then that generates learning, and so forth, and so forth! Und so weiter, und so weiter!”
Ali Hajou
Why is it important to Develop on Cadence and Release on Demand? How fast can...
"It's common for people to say they have a platform strategy that doesn't necessarily resemble a platform strategy so much as a center of dependency hell"
Mark Richards
In Episode 3, we explored the influence of Moore's Zone to Win model on understanding the portfolio ecosystem....