Hear me interviewed on SPaMCAST
I had the pleasure last month of being interviewed by SPamCAST’s Tom Cagley. It’s now up as SPaMCAST 224 – Mike Burrows, Kanban Values. I’ve never appeared in a podcast before and I’m very pleased with...
View ArticleHow complex systems fail
From Steven J. Spear’s The High Velocity Edge, chapter 3 – How Complex Systems Fail: In all the cases that we examined, there were common characteristics that led to painful results. People lacked a...
View ArticleWho is Kanban for?
There’s just a month to go until Lean Kanban North America (Chicago, April 28 – May 2) and it’s time for a little teaser to my talk Kanban through its values. Exploring Kanban from the perspective of...
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Making a case for “leadership disciplines”
Evoking the 70’s bumper sticker “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas“, I suggested in my last post that Agreement is not just for the kick-off meeting Let’s extend that thought to the first group...
View ArticlePeter Senge on the purpose of Systems Thinking
From a recent 5-minute video on John Hunter’s Curious Cat blog: [The] fundamental rationale for all of this: it’s not to understand systems – that’s an abstraction – it’s to understand how it is that...
View ArticleStand up meeting, thinking tool, leadership routine
My last post was on the provocative side; to restore this blog’s usual balance, here are some antidotes to some of the problems I described. These are ways to use your kanban board to help you look at...
View ArticleMy notes for the Portfolio Management panel at #lkfr13
Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting on a panel on the subject of portfolio management at Lean Kanban France. Our facilitator was Thomas Lissajoux and my co-panelists were Ian Carroll, Chris Young...
View ArticleA process of knowledge discovery
Creative knowledge work is a process of knowledge discovery. You might say that this statement goes a long way to define creative knowledge work and let the rest be left the imagination, but there is...
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STATIK, Kanban’s Hidden Gem (my #lkce14 talk)
[Updated – see end of article] The 2014 autumn conference season closes with Lean Kanban Central Europe 2014, one of my favourite events of the year. My talk expands on the STATIK part of last week’s...
View ArticleKanban from the Inside: 11. Systems Thinking, Complexity, and the Learning...
This series of short excerpts from my book, Kanban from the Inside has reached Part II (Models). For the next few chapters we look outside to other important bodies of knowledge. I’m not going to...
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