Posted by Christophe on July 27, 2010
My talk at LSSC10 on infoQ: Through The Lean Looking Glass
Summary
Christophe Louvion tells the story of an online advertising company which had to give up using Scrum because it did not create enough business value although the development was delivering working software. They chose to use Kanban instead, applying Lean principles at all levels of the organization, resulting in true self organizing teams, accelerated rate of change, and better financial results.
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Posted by Christophe on February 23, 2010
This is a short introduction to the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, the man who taught the Japanese how to constantly improve the system.
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Posted by Christophe on January 20, 2010
In this presentation, Pollyanna Pixton talks about leadership, especially leading Agile teams, but more importantly what senior leaders do to help support their Agile teams in their organizations. She focuses on how leaders that are command and control can stay out of the way, step back and let teams and everyone below them make their own decisions and take ownership and deliver.
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Posted by Christophe on December 11, 2009
Following her new book, in this video taken at UK Lean Conference 2009, Mary Poppendieck challenges the concept of plans; and demonstrates the need to replace them with decoupled experienced cross functional teams highly aware of constraints; and the the kind of leadership it takes to get the most of a system by focusing on flow rather than utilization.
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Posted by Christophe on September 12, 2009
Career analyst Dan Pink shows the terrifying disconnect between what social science knows and what managers do: rewards for performance don’t work; more often, they have a negative impact.
Watch Dan on Ted.
Then ask yourself: “how much am I impeding my company with carrots and sticks?”
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Posted by Christophe on July 23, 2009
If you didn’t manage to get to Miami for the inaugural Lean & Kanban conference then you can now watch most the presentations.
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Posted by Christophe on July 7, 2009
Rallydev is running a new weekly agile live show every tuesday morning called Rally Cafe.
In each show, they give tips on a different coffee type, find something relevant in the news and get a guest to answer a few questions (including from viewers).
With the tour de France going on, they thought of me as a guest for their third show. It is now available on ustream.
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Posted by Christophe on June 23, 2009
Today, distributed teams are stuck between 3 bad choices:
-use a limited online collaboration tool, and miss human interaction
-use local white boards, and miss real time information sharing
18 month ago, I wrote about Quickies -technology supported sticky notes- to bridge the white board and it’s online counterpart.
Minority Report offered a pure digital version of the white board.
According to Schematic, this is maybe not that far away…
Forget the number of LoC (lines of code) metric, here comes the DoG (distance of gesture) productivity metric.
You gotta love progress.
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Posted by Christophe on May 13, 2009
I don’t have the habit of ripping another blogpost content, but found this post by Kelly Waters just too good not to pass on.
Enjoy.
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Posted by Christophe on April 19, 2009
New videos from Agile 2008 are still coming out. In this one, Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the ‘next level’ and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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