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Dr. Klaus Leopold

Lean Business Agility E027: Strategy Deployment

In this episode I talk to Karl Scotland about strategy deployment and how to align peoples problem solving skills to the organisations key challenges and opportunities. Karl Scotland helps businesses become Learning Organisations.

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Lean Business Agility E026: Medical Device Development, Flight Levels and Scrum

In this episode I talk to Thomas van der Burg about the development and application of custom-built test methods and equipment for medical devices in a Pharmaceutical Company. Thomas reports how the department has managed to dramatically reduce the lead time on their now almost five-year journey to an agile way of working. They achieved

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Lean Business Agility E025: From 150 Agile Teams to Portfolio Management

In this episode I speak with Nicolas Mercier and Frédéric Paquet about an Agile transition in a government agency with 12,000 people involved. The initial request was to make 150 teams agile and that’s what they did. However, 150 agile teams is not a real outcome and that’s why Nick and Fred started to work

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Dealing with constant disruption
Dr. Klaus Leopold

Dealing with constant disruption

I am regularly asked a question during customer visits or training sessions: How do you deal with constant disruption? I have already written about this, such as the blog article on white noise and we cover the topic also in the book Kanban Change Leadership. For many years, though, I more often recommend the “Dude of

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TWiG V1.4 released
Dr. Klaus Leopold

TWiG V1.4 released

Something is happening in the TWiG country. I have just released version 1.4 . You can download it from the TWiG website. In addition to smaller bug fixes, there are two major changes: (1) Thanks to Florian Meyer, there is a facilitator’s guide, which greatly helps with the simulation setup and (2) the Realization Time

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Lean Business Agility E024: #ContinuousForecasting

You want to know how it works when ~50 development teams with ~900 people in total don’t estimate but know when stuff is going to be finished? Then watch episode 024 #continuouseForecasting of Lean Business Agility with Prateek Singh. Prateek Singh is Principal Agile Coach at Ultimate Software in South Florida, USA. Subscribe to the

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Dr. Klaus Leopold

TWiG – The WiP Game – is Out!

Klaus Leopold publishes a simulation to experience WIP-limited pull systems. The simulation is licensed with Creative Commons and can be downloaded for free.

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Kanban or Project Plan? Project Plan with Kanban?

More than anyone else, project leaders and mangers ask me again and again one question: “Does a Kanban board replace a project plan?” The answer is, as is often the case with me, “It depends.” First of all, a plan mostly describes the timeframe of a project in advance. The question is for which type

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New Year's Eve and the Optimal Amount of Work in the System

When a day like 31st December happens to be a Sunday, you are very unlucky if living in Austria. Grocery stores are usually closed Sundays with only a few exceptions. Those exceptions already tend to be crowded on ordinary Sundays, and even more so if it is New Year’s Eve. All the people who didn’t

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