Insights Archive
All published English LEANability insights from 2015.
Now, wait a minute, wasn’t there something else?! Oh, yeah! An iX Special Edition about the topic of agile software development and I was able to be part of it. Of course, in such a special edition for IT projects, the topic of Kanban should not be forgotten. Thus, iX requested a contribution from m
Read articleBen Linders from InfoQ interviewed Klaus during the Goto conference in Berlin. The topic of the interview was “don’t optimize team-level performance” – the title of Klaus’ talk. Agilization and optimization if organizations respectively is by no means intuitive. Some examples: Work is finished faste
Read articleKlaus is invited to run a Kanban workshop with 50 managers in China. It was sensational! And what Mr. Bösel (Josef Hader) discovered in the movie India, much to his dismay, is really true: “They finish with the soup!!” So much for the understanding of cultures ?
Read articleOn the 3rd and 4th of November 2015, the Goto Conference took place in Berlin. I was invited by Markus Andrezak from ueberproduct to speak during his “On the Boundaries of Agile” track. I was of course happy to oblige. The title of my talk was “Don’t optimize team-level approaches”. It was about the
Read articleOnce again it was time for Kanban trainings in South Africa. This time we had the pleasure of holding both an “Applying Kanban” as well as an “Improving Kanban” training, and all of this in two separate locations. We started with the training for advanced Kanban users “Improving Kanban” in Centurion
Read article“Toll war’s, voll war’s!” (literally: “It was great, it was crowded!”), this is what the sipgate Blog had to say about the last Lean DUS. We, of course, could not agree more. sipgate invited Klaus to speak about the topic “Kanban on a large scale” and more than 140 guest didn’t want to miss out. […]
Read articleIn April 2015, I had the pleasure of speaking at one of the best conferences that I have ever taken part in. The LeanUX 2015 in Brooklyn, New York City.
Read articleVERY cool title: “Agile Scaling: Kanban!”, after all it says what it does and it does what it says. Klaus has been invited to the Austrian Testing Board to speak specifically about this current hot topic. And the exciting part about Kanban’s perspective on several teams and projects is that scaling
Read articleIt took a while until the Kanban standard work Kanban in der IT by Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker was translated into English. Since June, it has now been available at your local bookstore in English under the title Kanban Change Leadership. Several positive reviews have already been posted whic
Read articleAfter my workshop at LKNA15 in Miami and my session at the Kanban Leadership Retreat in Austria this year, I got tons of questions regarding the boat exercise. Unfortunately, I had to disappoint all inquirer as I don’t have any instructions for the exercise. This changed, thanks to my friends Peter
Read articleLast week our dear friends Cliff and Fiona from Sweden dropped by for a visit. Cliff Hazell graduated from his Kanban training with Klaus in South Africa and also has co-trained some Kanban courses with Klaus. Cliff is now working with Spotify in Stockholm, where he is responsible for driving the co
Read articleThe Lean Kanban North America Conference took place this year in Miami and LEANability was, of course!, right in the middle of it all. Klaus was definitely quite busy: Lecture, workshop and presenter of the Brickell Key Award. But, first things first…
Read articleNew York, New York! LeanUX at an awesome venue in Brooklyn and an Applying Kanban Training at Spotify in their NY headquarter in Manhattan, That’s what we call a New York trip 😉
Read articleThis time, we are reporting directly from Thailand right after one super exciting “Applying Kanban” in Bangkok. 18 Kanban craving Thais wittingly challenged Klaus! Even a completely different manner of thinking could not tame the enthusiasm for agile work with Lean, Kanban, System Thinking etc. and
Read articleInfoQ recently interviewed Klaus concerning his unique topic of Kanban on a large scale.
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