Insights Archive
All published English LEANability insights from 2013.
If organizational change is to be something more than putting a fresh coat of paint on the company building, you have no choice but to take people along with you on this journey of change. At the end of the day it is people who make change possible, who drive it forward or hinder it. […]
Read articleLean Kanban Central Europe is always worth a visit. This year the fabulous event took place in Hamburg and I was presenting the Kanban Flight Levels Model. Here’s the 30 minutes video of my session:
Read articleThis year’s Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference took place in Hamburg, DE. Klaus participated with a talk about the Kanban Flight Levels.
Read articleIn my article “The logic of failure in improvement initiatives” I stated that between 60 and 80 percent of change initiatives in companies fail. Here we should ask ourselves what it was that actually failed? What is the object to change? What is an organisation? We can identify very quickly an organ
Read articleEveryone is talking about improvement, change, change management, change leadership, etc. But what does these change-related terms really mean? What is it that has to be changed? Organizations? Individuals? Cultures? What actually takes place during the change process? What does one have to take int
Read articleIt only took less than 1.5 years and the first edition of the book “Kanban in der IT” from Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker is sold out. Now we proudly present the second edition of the book!
Read articleWith very little effort, Kanban can change a lot. I witness this often when I visit a company again weeks or months after introducing Kanban. However, I also see that I get contacted by companies where the „Kanban pilots“ have ditched the aircraft in the swirling desert sands. “We have a board, WIP
Read articleA Kanban system is just so friendly and shows us where problems arise. Combined with WIP limits it is even friendlier and even tells us that we should solve the problem NOW before starting new work. Wonderful! And this is precisely what many companies do – they solve problems. I try to convince comp
Read articleBefore you start with Kanban it is important to decide where you want to embed it in the overall organizational context. Sounds like an easy question, however, I learned that it is not always so easy to answer – especially in bigger organizations. Therefore, I developed the Kanban flight levels mode
Read articleAuthors of this article are Sigi Kaltenecker and Klaus Leopold. We decided to publish this article on klausleopold.com altough it is the output of our joint work. We are currently working on a solution of how to publish our joint work in the future. Like last year, this year’s Kanban Leadership Retr
Read articleIn my post “The Kanban change team” I shared the experience that it’s often useful to build a cross functional and hierarchy-bridging team who is driving the change. But what is this change team actually doing when they are “driving” the change? Well, the short answer is “everything that is needed t
Read articleAt the Lean Kanban North America conference in Chicago I did a session on “Good practices to start a culture of continuous improvement”. I’d like to take this topic to my blog and today I’m going to start with a simple but very powerful practice which Sigi Kaltenecker and I are using quite often whe
Read articleLEANability are Kanban pioneers again. This time Klaus and Sigi taught the first Kanban training in South Africa. Three days of the certified Kanban Change Leadership training in Johannesburg. Awesome!
Read articleLike every year, the program of the Lean Kanban conference in North America is simply amazing. This year it’s even more amazing because there is a track called “The Change Agent” and I am very honored to chair this track. I find it really marvelous that such an important conference puts the work of
Read articleOops we did it again – first accredited Kanban training in Thailand and it was awesome again.
Read articleWhen I revisited a client about 1.5 years after we introduced knowledge transfer policies to their system I discovered something interesting: knowledge transfer tickets followed a slightly different process than tickets without knowledge transfer. They pass through an additional last process step ca
Read articleBook presentation of “Kanban in der IT” at Lehmann’s book shop in Berlin. Nice 🙂
Read articleIn my article “Knowledge Transfer with Kanban” I explained the very first experiences I made with knowledge transfer policies in kanban systems some years ago. I convinced quite a lot of organizations to give it a try when they faced this problem. In an audit with a client who introduced knowledge t
Read articleOne of the challenges I’ve to address quite frequently in system designs is knowledge transfer. For instance, some years ago one of my clients was in the situation that they have a lot of COBOL code in their system. That’s not really a problem as such, however they noticed that COBOL developers die
Read articleKlaus is member of the Lean Kanban University management board.
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