Insights Archive

Articles from 2016

All published English LEANability insights from 2016.

Dr. Klaus Leopold

Kanban in South Africa

“Applying Kanban” was the theme on 31 Oct – 1 Nov in Cape Town and on 3-4 Nov in Johannesburg. A very nice extra for me was to co-train with Mike Freislich and Regina Martins. The cooperation was really exciting for me and we could learn a lot from each other.

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Dr. Klaus Leopold

Agile Business Conference 2016, Moscow

From Moscow with love! Premiere of the Agile Business Conference in Moscow – 500 participants, simultaneous translation, whiskey party and Klaus talks in his session about how to make an organization fit for the future with about 80 teams.

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Don't Optimize Teams

One of the biggest mistakes I see in Agile transformations (gee, I hate this term) is that organizations “install” Agile methods on teams and then they think agility of their organization improved. Unfortunately, that is totally not working!! A better way is shown by Klaus in his talk at the Lean Ka

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Lean Kanban North America 2016

Cheers from San Diego! After a week of rather casual work in Miami, FL – Katrin and I arrived in San Diego, CA. And we gonna pick up pace: three events in only five days. On Monday, 16 May, I was speaking at the Lean Kanban North America Conference 2016, followed by the Enterprise Services Planning

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London Lean Kanban Days 2016

I had the pleasure of speaking at the London Lean Kanban Days 2016 on 18-19 April in London. When my friend Jose Casal invites to a conference one can be sure that it will be a lovely event. And so it was! Most of the Kanban thought leaders met and I got the feeling like being on a school reunion. [

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The economy of waiting times: Cost of delay

The article “The effects of increasing capacity” is all about companies increasing capacity without paving the way for such an undertaking. What is even more dramatic is the fact that most companies lack a real feeling for the economic effects increased waiting times can have. It is, therefore, not

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The effects of increasing capacity

In many businesses with well-filled order books, I often come into contact with purely capacity oriented thinking. There is so much demand that it can neither be met with the current pool of qualified employees nor the amount of material resources at hand. The solution seems to be perfectly clear: i

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Large Scale Kanban Webinar on Friday

Friday Feb 26 – Klaus Leopold will give a webinar about Kanban at Large Scale powered by Digité – Swift Kanban. Thanks to Mahesh and Ram for giving us this opportunity! We’re doing this webinar twice on 26th February, 2016 to suit all time zone needs – do choose a time that’s convenient for you: At

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Applying Kanban in Bangkok

The year 2016 started with 30 degrees celsius – very nice! The 1st and 2nd February was training time in Bangkok – two days Applying Kanban. I had the pleasure to work with an awesome group who learnt Kanban basic knowledge and immediately applied it to their real life scenarios. The output was four

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Blocker Clustering Video (LKNA15)

In May 2015, the Lean Kanban North America conference took place in Miami, FL, United States, and I had the pleasure to speak there as well. The presentations were videotaped, but I totally missed that they were already published. But now there it is, high

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