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Lean Kanban Central Europe 2011 – Thoughts and Impressions

October 19, 2011

First edition of Lean Kanban Central Europe conference is history. I was really looking forward to be there although there’s always a bit of doubt whenever you think about the first edition of the event. Anyway lkce11 definitely lived up to my expectations. Organization I’ll be short here: kudos for Arne, Bernd and the rest [...]

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Learn! Or How to Get a Better Job

October 17, 2011

A couple of days ago I had a chance to speak at a local meetup. It probably won’t come as a surprise that I was speaking on Kanban. In fact, it was a test run of one of my presentations I was preparing for one of big events. The point is, only few people shown [...]

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Visual Management

October 15, 2011

When I’m speaking at different events I usually keep evangelizing Kanban. Well, it’s sort of easy when you speak to an audience which is aware of this whole Kanbanish thingamajig. They may be even wrong when it comes to answer what Kanban really is but we still have a common starting point. The challenge starts [...]

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Be Passionate!

October 5, 2011

When this post goes live I’m already going sailing to the seaside. It may sound very nice, but considering it is the Baltic Sea and it is already fall and a weather forecast is kind of harsh, it probably means the adventure will include being wet, cold and seasick. Sounds oh, so nice, indeed. Especially [...]

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Kanban Story: Kanban Board Should Reflect the Reality

October 3, 2011

The other day I had a discussion over a Kanban board design. A team has realized the board doesn’t reflect the way they work ideally. We started analyzing what happened. What did actually introduce a disconnection between the reality and the board? We ended up with quite an interesting conclusion. It appeared that the board [...]

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How I Interview

September 30, 2011

Let me start with a side note: this post could either way be titled “The Question I Will Ask during Interview.” It all started when I asked my better half one question we often use during interviews with developers. Actually it may sound a bit weird to ask a surveyor a question taken from an [...]

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How to Get Most Out of Trainings

September 28, 2011

I’ve just come back from leadership workshop. One interesting observation I made there is that, as trainees, we usually have much control over what we get out of trainings we attend. I mean, it doesn’t really matter whether a training or a workshop or a conference or whatever is good or bad, we still can [...]

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What Kanban Really Is

September 19, 2011

I promised to share more thoughts on my Kanban presentation from AgileByExample. Actually during abe2011 there were 3 sessions which touched Kanban in one way or another. And then, well, and then there was a heated discussion, mercilessly cut off by the conference hosts. Even though we didn’t convince each other to our points (after [...]

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AgileByExample 2011: Thoughts and Impressions

September 16, 2011

The next agile conference has just ended. Was it worthwhile? Well, a general answer is positive, although I can’t say everything was perfectly fine. Evolution of Conferences When we are on a general level let me start with an impression I have and which is supported over and over again this year. Thinking about conferences [...]

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Agile? Waterfall? CMMI? EVM? All of Them and More!

September 14, 2011

There is one thing which really pisses me off. I mean really. It happens when someone has a single solution which is perfect to solve the whole domain of problems. I just organically can’t stand silver bullet salesmen. This is by the way something which made me pretty suspicious when I started learning about this [...]

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