Insights Archive
All published English LEANability insights from 2014.
That sounds like a rather weird title for an article. Hmmm… Well, it pretty much describes 2014’s highlights of my blog. As another year is over, I thought it might be a good idea to take a look at my blog statistics. What were the most read articles past year? Here they are: 1. Identifying […]
Read articleLean Kanban Central Europe conference 2014 took place again in Hamburg, Germany and featured Klaus Leopold twice: Blocker Clustering and Analyzing together with Troy Magennis and a second talk about Agile Scaling.
Read articleThe Lean Kanban Central Europe 2014 conference is over and it was again just awesome. I had the pleasure to chair the Learning Track.
Read articleKlaus Leopold was again a guest in South Africa. And this time for two trainings: The LKU Foundation Level Training “Applying Kanban” and the brand new Advanced Practitioner Training “Improving & Scaling Kanban”. And, it was sensational! But, let’s start at the beginning…
Read articleOn November 11, at this year’s Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference in Hamburg, the Lean Forecasting expert Troy Magennis and the Lean Kanban expert Klaus Leopold will both hold a session together called “Blockades – Treasures of Improvement”. Both of these Brickell Key Award prize winners will put
Read articleScaling Agile is currently a very hot topic indeed. “Unfortunately,” in the Kanban world we can’t really jump on this topic and paint some beautiful posters with principles and pillars and recipes that explain how Kanban probably can be best scaled. Scalability is an inherent part of Kanban and ther
Read articleAgain and again I am confronted with the problem of having to explain to people that Kanban is not a team-centered method but a flow-based approach. But where is the difference and why is it important to understand the difference? In flow-based development the focus is not on optimizing the team, i.
Read articleI currently notice a significant accumulation of so-called Lean initiatives that are being rolled out on a large scale in companies by major consulting houses. Four of my clients are currently affected at the same time by these Lean waves and I will try to put my observations into words. The example
Read articleThe fourth Kanban Leadership Retreat is now history. After meeting in Iceland and twice in Austria, the Kanban world met this time in the beautiful harbor town of Cascais in Portugal. Katrin Dietze (LEANability) and Irina Dzhambazova (David J. Anderson & Associates) moderated the two-day “unconferen
Read articleKanban can have, with very little effort, a great impact. I see this a lot when I visit companies weeks or months after Kanban has been introduced.
Read articleOne of life’s most revealing philosophies is to embrace the journey rather than the destination. The same is true in the context of pursuing improvement in problem solving for corporations of all sizes. Any company who wishes to learn, grow and improve, never really stops doing so. In their quest fo
Read articleThis year’s Lean Kanban North America conference was very special for me. I won the Brickell Key Award “for outstanding achievement and leadership” as the stylish glass block says. Thank you so much to everybody who nominated me and provided references! It’s really a very big honour to be selected o
Read articleKlaus is awarded with the Brickell Key Award für “outstanding achievement and leadership” in the Lean Kanban world. This makes us of course veeeeery proud!
Read articleNext week it is that time again: The Lean Kanban North America Conference will take place from May 5 to 8 in San Francisco and LEANability will, of course, be there. This time with the extra special honor of, as we previously reported, Klaus being nominated for the Brickell Key Award. In light of th
Read articleWith the article “Achieving continuous improvement through Kanban” I kicked-off a series of blog posts to explain my experience of how you might succeed with seeding a culture of continuous improvement in your organization. As you probably know, I am totally no fan of recipes and thus, it might come
Read articleI am often asked, “how do you create the right motivation for real organizational change?” Just because you’re using a kanban system does not automatically ensure your company will see all the success it is looking for or that you can make the improvements you seek in productivity. What is the missi
Read articleThe idea of the pre-queue came about three years ago in a system design workshop with a Swiss financial services company as we were contemplating the input queue and its dimensions. We thought a weekly queue replenishment would be good and set the length of the queue to 8 as the staff assumed that t
Read articleI feel very honored to be nominated for this year’s Brickell Key Award. The award is named after the Brickell Key island near Miami where our community first gathered for the Lean and Kanban Conference in May 2009. According to the organizers, the award highlights excellence in our community honorin
Read articleOnly in the last two month alone I have supervised the design of 13 different kanban systems in different companies. After two or three days of work the initial kanban system is hanging on the wall and everyone is standing proudly in front of it. Now and again I hear statements like: “I really hope
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Read articleWhich forms of management are necessary to nurture a culture of continuous improvement? Modern (change) management is mainly about A careful awareness of what is actually happening in an organization, Professional communication, both internally and externally, i.e. with all stakeholders above and be
Read articleMy blogpost, “Do I have to do that? Can I do that? Do I want to do that?” was about these three questions asked by all involved in a change process. Not surprisingly the answers are rarely purely rational in nature but also involve emotions to a great extent. That is simply the ways things […]
Read articleAs I already mentioned in the blog post “Do I have to do that? Can I do that? Do I want to do that?” organizational change is inseparably linked to personal emotions. These emotions should be regarded as the elixir of life for any change. They release energy, they attribute meaning, they force progr
Read articleThe world is a model richer: Kanban flight levels. I really do not believe that it has been waiting with bated breath for someone to summarise Kanban applications but it has been shown that the model can make the life of a Kanban proponent a little easier. You can find a more detailed explanation of
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