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LSSC10 talk – Through The Lean Looking Glass

Christophe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:24:29 +0000

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.

Deming in 30 minutes

Christophe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:41:17 +0000

This is a short introduction to the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, the man who taught the Japanese how to constantly improve the system.

Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership

Christophe — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:59:52 +0000

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.

Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan”

Christophe — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:31:31 +0000

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.

Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point)

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Christophe — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:49:54 +0000

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?”

Lean & Kanban 2009 – Videos

Christophe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:48:14 +0000

If you didn’t manage to get to Miami for the inaugural Lean & Kanban conference then you can now watch most the presentations.

Rally Cafe #3

Christophe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:51:02 +0000

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.

Majority Report

Christophe — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:23:35 +0000

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.

Gotta laugh some day

Christophe — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:32:20 +0000

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.

Lean Organizations to Support Agile Teams

Christophe — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:08:19 +0000

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.