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More articles by Dr. Klaus Leopold. Page 11 of 16.
On 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
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