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Dr. Klaus Leopold

Tasks of a Kanban change team

In 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

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The Kanban change team

At 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

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Kanban Change Leadership in South Africa

LEANability 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!

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Meet "The Change Agent" at LKNA13

Like 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

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Kanban in Thailand

Oops we did it again – first accredited Kanban training in Thailand and it was awesome again.

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Feedback and Pull-based Knowledge Transfer

When 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

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Knowledge Transfer or Not?

In 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

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Knowledge Transfer with Kanban

One 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

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