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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	Manage the normal - treat exception as exceptional Ever had this thrown at you? "This production bug is unacceptable, it must never happen again!" And that event, outside your systems control, formed a policy that affected all your every day life. Failure to distinguish between uncertainty ...	Dec 10, 2009
2	Speaker at Lean Conference, Atlanta 2010 I will present at the Lean Software & Systems Conference, April 21-13 in Atlanta. Looks like a promising event, with speakers like Don Reinertsen and David Anderson. Ps: There are some new exciting events in Stockholm this spring coming up with ...	Nov 17, 2009
3	Why cycle time can tell you more than velocity Take a look at this chart and tell us how we are doing? Team velocity of a the Starship team. Number are weeks, the colors represents different categories of work. It is quite hard... There are too many variables distorting our data. Do we having ...	Sep 6, 2009
4	Your Scrum is running fine, right? Your team is coding along, sprints are passing by, your somewhere around sprint 15.. life is ok.. ..or? As a famous test leader once said: "Team are happily completing sprints but nothing gets's done" Here are a couple of things to look out...	Sep 1, 2009
5	Takeways from Future of Agile Experience the humbleness and energy of so many people in one single place was a great experience. I would have liked to stay longer just do discuss and share experiences. Takeaways: As Agile practitioners, we need to continue to evolve ...	May 29, 2009
6	Resources for Lean Software Development I held a seminar at NFI today "Introduction to Lean Software Development". Afterwards, I got the question "where is a good starting point to learn more?" - and realized that while there is new material, much is still "in work&q...	May 14, 2009
7	Learnings from Kanban and Lean conference I attended the Lean & Kanban conference last week. The first of it's kind, a big boost of energy and I certainly hope to see more on this subject. It was striking how, in case after case, the simple introduction of visual management and matching ...	May 13, 2009
8	The missing piece, a cooperation model When applying Lean, or thinking about scaling agile benefits to the Enterprise we tend to "home in" on the practices (Release cadance, Kanban, Flow, Portfolio management, risk etc). These are all valuable and the world would be a happier plac...	May 7, 2009
9	Roots of Lean - day one I am currently on a visit to Japan to meet Toyota and representatives from Japan's industry to learn about their challenges. Already on day one, things got really interesting. We met today with the CEO of a Fujitsu subsidiary, specialized in software....	Apr 20, 2009
10	Beware of when Lean is used as a cover up for old school managment Do you believe a manufactoring plant is a good model for software development? No? Then what why would you strive so hard to apply Lean in IT? Think about the answer for a while.	Feb 18, 2009
11	Value trumps flow, and flow trumps waste reduction Yesterday, in a post by David Andersson, he so accurately in few words managed to describe the fundaments any Lean implementation. "In Lean operational decisions, value trumps flow, and flow trumps waste reduction." The value of waste red...	Feb 11, 2009
12	Kanban checklists These are checklists I have compiled to help my Kanban teams stay focused "Anytime" Iteration planning Daily standup ...	Feb 4, 2009
13	When to use Scrum and when to use Lean? I recently got a valid question from a collegue and it deserves an answer. "When do I use Scrum and when do I use Lean?" Lean predicts that work happens in a certain order. Scrum has a "chaos" approach where work can be done in bes...	Feb 2, 2009
14	Future of Agile conference Kanban pracitioner or a Scrum team thinking of adopting it?, don't miss out on the "Future of Agile" conference 27:th of May. An unique opportunity to learn from practitioners and experts about experiences and best practices for Kanban and L...	Feb 2, 2009
15	Are you manouvering a sports car or a truck? This is not you, right? Customer making changes at a faster rate then the development teams can implement A development team running short sprint lengths only to deliver crap to QA A development team promising features at a quicker rate th...	Dec 17, 2008
16	Agile for support and operations in 5 min Scrum does not fit well into the fast moving world of support. There is no Sprint committment, there is just continuous work. But support teams can go Agile. The solutions is spelled Kanban. I have coached two support teams adopting Kanban and attache...	Nov 3, 2008
17	Agile game - Pass the pennies Excellent game for quick learning of lean principles. You can do it anywhere and anytime with 20 pennies, some mobile phones and a team of playful people.	Sep 8, 2008
18	Planning ahead in Scrum In Scrum it is often perceived that planning takes place on sprint planning day. Getting the required parties in the same place and do planning is a good way of making real time decisions. But getting people together is a dounting or impossible task an...	Mar 18, 2008
19	Dealing with technical debt Because of unclear definition of benefit of removing technical debt, PO and teams risk move into a standstill regarding activities to to remove it. This is counter productive, we should remove thresholds of quality improvement activities, not introduce...	Feb 28, 2008