Over the last 15 years, the Kanban Method has evolved into a 21st century management method to improve business performance. At its heart, the Kanban Method provides businesses with the tools needed to balance their capabilities with the needs of their customers. This presentation explores the last 15 years of Kanban's evolution. Presented at AgileTO July 2019.
Pea Pods & Connecting the Upstream - Lean Kanban North America 2018Martin Aziz
Pea Pods. A reflection on how achieving flow, and the intended business results of Agility, requires us to solve system problems that go beyond the team. The Kanban Method is shown to be applicable at the level of the whole organization.
Presented at Lean Kanban North America 2018
By Martin Aziz and Fernando Cuenca
Scrum has proven to be a successful framework for many companies in complex delivery domains to transition to Agility from more traditional delivery methods.
At some point during these transitions many companies have experienced a stall to what have previously been ongoing and exponential improvements. While team-level performance might have seen a substantial improvement, end-to-end delivery as perceived by customers and other stakeholders may not bit fit enough. In other cases, no matter how much teams work within the Scrum framework to improve their work, recurring “impediments” cause the Scrum implementation to plateau, or even regress.
We have learnt that complexity brings with it challenges in the "white spaces" that exist between teams where local improvements become disconnected from the delivery of customer value. In essence, Scrum is good, but doesn't provide enough to meet the needs of the whole system.
This talk will summarize key lessons distilled from that realization. We will highlight some of the limitations of team-centric Agile approaches and discuss Lean & Systems Thinking concepts to improve the system as a whole and bring your organization back to a place of continuous improvement that is connected to customer value.
Kanban in The Land of Scrum: Choose your Own Scrumban AdventureFernando Cuenca
Kanban is often described as something you layer "on top" of your existing process in order to stimulate improvement. So, what would that look like if your existing process is Scrum?
The term "Scrumban" has been used to describe this kind of combination, but it's much more than simply "Scrum with WIP limits". It's not about picking and choosing "the best of both", but the full application of the Kanban Method to a challenged Scrum implementation, to help it move beyond what's currently causing it to stall.
Kanban is "a way of seeing"; in this session we will "see" Scrum through the lens of Kanban, and explore how those insights can be used to re-ignite the inspect-&-adapt cycle to create a highly customized process that is better suited for your particular context.
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Delivered at Gatineau-Ottawa Agile Tour (GOAT) 2019
From Team Flow to System Flow to Customer Flow: Practical Tools to Keep Valua...Fernando Cuenca
"Early and continuous delivery of value" is one of the promises of a shift towards Agile, and one of the manifestations of that principle is the ability to keep work in a state of "flow": always smoothly moving and reaching its Customers. Flow can be observed (and managed) at multiple levels, but the flow that really matters is that which is perceived by the Customer.
This talk will explore the meaning of "flow" at various levels (teams, systems of teams, and end-to-end Customer workflows), and the practical techniques organizations can apply to move from one level to the next, and as they do so, streamline and smooth out delivery of value to their Customers.
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Delivered at the 2019 Toronto Agile Conference
Scrum to the Left of Me, Kanban to the Right. Here I am Stuck in the Middle ...Jerry Doucett
Slides from a presentation given at the 2019 Toronto Agile Conference - November 5, 2019, 1:00-2:00 PM ET, at the Beanfield Centre, Toronto, Canada.
This presentation is a case study of Scrum and Kanban working together to provide better outcomes.
Pea Pods & Connecting the Upstream - Lean Kanban North America 2018Martin Aziz
Pea Pods. A reflection on how achieving flow, and the intended business results of Agility, requires us to solve system problems that go beyond the team. The Kanban Method is shown to be applicable at the level of the whole organization.
Presented at Lean Kanban North America 2018
By Martin Aziz and Fernando Cuenca
Scrum has proven to be a successful framework for many companies in complex delivery domains to transition to Agility from more traditional delivery methods.
At some point during these transitions many companies have experienced a stall to what have previously been ongoing and exponential improvements. While team-level performance might have seen a substantial improvement, end-to-end delivery as perceived by customers and other stakeholders may not bit fit enough. In other cases, no matter how much teams work within the Scrum framework to improve their work, recurring “impediments” cause the Scrum implementation to plateau, or even regress.
We have learnt that complexity brings with it challenges in the "white spaces" that exist between teams where local improvements become disconnected from the delivery of customer value. In essence, Scrum is good, but doesn't provide enough to meet the needs of the whole system.
This talk will summarize key lessons distilled from that realization. We will highlight some of the limitations of team-centric Agile approaches and discuss Lean & Systems Thinking concepts to improve the system as a whole and bring your organization back to a place of continuous improvement that is connected to customer value.
Kanban in The Land of Scrum: Choose your Own Scrumban AdventureFernando Cuenca
Kanban is often described as something you layer "on top" of your existing process in order to stimulate improvement. So, what would that look like if your existing process is Scrum?
The term "Scrumban" has been used to describe this kind of combination, but it's much more than simply "Scrum with WIP limits". It's not about picking and choosing "the best of both", but the full application of the Kanban Method to a challenged Scrum implementation, to help it move beyond what's currently causing it to stall.
Kanban is "a way of seeing"; in this session we will "see" Scrum through the lens of Kanban, and explore how those insights can be used to re-ignite the inspect-&-adapt cycle to create a highly customized process that is better suited for your particular context.
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Delivered at Gatineau-Ottawa Agile Tour (GOAT) 2019
From Team Flow to System Flow to Customer Flow: Practical Tools to Keep Valua...Fernando Cuenca
"Early and continuous delivery of value" is one of the promises of a shift towards Agile, and one of the manifestations of that principle is the ability to keep work in a state of "flow": always smoothly moving and reaching its Customers. Flow can be observed (and managed) at multiple levels, but the flow that really matters is that which is perceived by the Customer.
This talk will explore the meaning of "flow" at various levels (teams, systems of teams, and end-to-end Customer workflows), and the practical techniques organizations can apply to move from one level to the next, and as they do so, streamline and smooth out delivery of value to their Customers.
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Delivered at the 2019 Toronto Agile Conference
Scrum to the Left of Me, Kanban to the Right. Here I am Stuck in the Middle ...Jerry Doucett
Slides from a presentation given at the 2019 Toronto Agile Conference - November 5, 2019, 1:00-2:00 PM ET, at the Beanfield Centre, Toronto, Canada.
This presentation is a case study of Scrum and Kanban working together to provide better outcomes.
Agile Dependencies: When "going cross-functional" is not an optionFernando Cuenca
Small, cross-functional teams are the "bread & butter" of Agile environments. Amongst many advantages, they help remove delays introduced by dependencies between groups. Unfortunately, many organizations find it difficult to reorganize their teams to be cross-functional, and even when they do, it's practically impossible to remove all dependencies, leaving many teams in the need to find ways to orchestrate work across various groups that work using different processes.
This talk will explore the problem of intra-team dependencies, its impact in Customer flow, and practical strategies team-level leaders (as well as system-level leaders) can apply to help make the whole system more responsive, fit-for-purpose, and agile. In particular, the talk will describe Dynamic Reservation Systems, an advanced dependency management technique.
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Presented at the Toronto Agile Conference, Nov 6, 2020
A brief 1 hr talk provided at the Sydney Agile @ Scale Meetup group in October 2016 to cover the basics of Kanban and Enterprise Services Planning (ESP), talking concepts from DJA's slideshare content and adding in games for people to discover what Kanban and ESP is about.
Why agile is failing in large enterprisesLeadingAgile
Agile works. We get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Even so, many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process, and the culture. And it’s especially easy to blame management. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be agile. You need a way to safely and pragmatically refactor your company into an organization that can adopt agile and sustain the transformation. Mike Cottmeyer introduces a framework for understanding the type of company in which you work, its delivery constraints, and likely challenges you’ll face in your agile transformation. Mike shares a strategy for establishing an end-state vision and operational model to guide your transformation. Finally, he defines an approach for incrementally introducing change, measuring outcomes, and sustaining those changes.
Check out Mike giving this talk live https://www.leadingagile.com/why-agile-fails
Janice Linden-Reed's presentation at Lean Kanban Central Europe describing the feedback mechanisms in the Kanban Method used with Enterprise Services Planning to evolve to a business to be "fit for purpose" constantly sensing & responding to political, economic & market changes
The Agile Enterprise: The Role of Leadership & Organization Health in Scaling...Cprime
The Agile Enterprise is nimble and robust. Responsive to an ever-changing, high-speed marketplace, it anticipates customer needs and wants. Its capacity for innovation delights customers and employees alike. Implementing agile for software development is vital and not enough for full-scale agility. At scale, a company needs to be agile-informed in its purpose, structure, processes and culture. This allows it to use business agility—a shared understanding that generates a new way of thinking, working and delivering value—as a competitive advantage. The organizational health essential to enterprise agility occurs by intentional design: a top-down commitment to embody transformational leadership. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
· The two key, complementary value cycles that constitute Enterprise Agility
· Why the Agile Enterprise depends on Transformational Leadership
· The four organizational disciplines of the Agile Enterprise
"Change" is the New Normal – Building a Sustainable Strategic Sourcing ProgramSAP Ariba
The saying goes, “The only constant is change.” This is all the more true when it comes to sustaining a strategic sourcing program. With rising commodity costs, globalization, and regulatory pressures, procurement teams struggle to sustain savings alongside a plethora of tactical responsibilities.
Join this session where industry leaders will share how they navigate and manage their strategic sourcing programs in today’s ever-changing environments.
Learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Agile Dependencies: When "going cross-functional" is not an optionFernando Cuenca
Small, cross-functional teams are the "bread & butter" of Agile environments. Amongst many advantages, they help remove delays introduced by dependencies between groups. Unfortunately, many organizations find it difficult to reorganize their teams to be cross-functional, and even when they do, it's practically impossible to remove all dependencies, leaving many teams in the need to find ways to orchestrate work across various groups that work using different processes.
This talk will explore the problem of intra-team dependencies, its impact in Customer flow, and practical strategies team-level leaders (as well as system-level leaders) can apply to help make the whole system more responsive, fit-for-purpose, and agile. In particular, the talk will describe Dynamic Reservation Systems, an advanced dependency management technique.
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Presented at the Toronto Agile Conference, Nov 6, 2020
A brief 1 hr talk provided at the Sydney Agile @ Scale Meetup group in October 2016 to cover the basics of Kanban and Enterprise Services Planning (ESP), talking concepts from DJA's slideshare content and adding in games for people to discover what Kanban and ESP is about.
Why agile is failing in large enterprisesLeadingAgile
Agile works. We get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Even so, many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process, and the culture. And it’s especially easy to blame management. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be agile. You need a way to safely and pragmatically refactor your company into an organization that can adopt agile and sustain the transformation. Mike Cottmeyer introduces a framework for understanding the type of company in which you work, its delivery constraints, and likely challenges you’ll face in your agile transformation. Mike shares a strategy for establishing an end-state vision and operational model to guide your transformation. Finally, he defines an approach for incrementally introducing change, measuring outcomes, and sustaining those changes.
Check out Mike giving this talk live https://www.leadingagile.com/why-agile-fails
Janice Linden-Reed's presentation at Lean Kanban Central Europe describing the feedback mechanisms in the Kanban Method used with Enterprise Services Planning to evolve to a business to be "fit for purpose" constantly sensing & responding to political, economic & market changes
The Agile Enterprise: The Role of Leadership & Organization Health in Scaling...Cprime
The Agile Enterprise is nimble and robust. Responsive to an ever-changing, high-speed marketplace, it anticipates customer needs and wants. Its capacity for innovation delights customers and employees alike. Implementing agile for software development is vital and not enough for full-scale agility. At scale, a company needs to be agile-informed in its purpose, structure, processes and culture. This allows it to use business agility—a shared understanding that generates a new way of thinking, working and delivering value—as a competitive advantage. The organizational health essential to enterprise agility occurs by intentional design: a top-down commitment to embody transformational leadership. In this webinar, you’ll learn:
· The two key, complementary value cycles that constitute Enterprise Agility
· Why the Agile Enterprise depends on Transformational Leadership
· The four organizational disciplines of the Agile Enterprise
"Change" is the New Normal – Building a Sustainable Strategic Sourcing ProgramSAP Ariba
The saying goes, “The only constant is change.” This is all the more true when it comes to sustaining a strategic sourcing program. With rising commodity costs, globalization, and regulatory pressures, procurement teams struggle to sustain savings alongside a plethora of tactical responsibilities.
Join this session where industry leaders will share how they navigate and manage their strategic sourcing programs in today’s ever-changing environments.
Learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
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Anaplan SPM Webinar 2: Transitioning from spreadsheet-based territory managem...Anaplan
In the second webinar in Anaplan's sales performance management series, we explore three key benefits of transitioning away from spreadsheets for managing territories and sales capacity planning.
A Journey from the Promise of Agile in early 2000s (Values and Principles) to the State of Agile in 2020, highlighting the present Challenges and Issues (Faux-Agile, Immature Agile, Inflated Expectations and Dissatisfaction, Gap of Business and Development) and showing the Path that is Emerging to Fulfill the Promise through Lean Influence, Technical Excellence, Delivery Revolution, Self-Organized Teams, Lean Management and Generative Culture, drawing a final Conclusion of necessary Alignment between Technical, Team and Management Practices with Agile Values and Principles to reach the final goal of Customer, Team and Organization Satisfaction through the vehicles of Generative Culture, Value Delivery and Team Performance.
Feel free to contact me for further details.
Expanding the CPO Sphere of Influence Beyond ProcurementSAP Ariba
Organizations today look up to procurement teams to deliver beyond tactical savings. Procurement is increasingly seen as the driver of business value through cross- functional collaboration within the enterprise as well as outside. Stepping up to this expectation calls for breaking the silo and adopting an approach that addresses the imperatives of procurement as well as those of the value chain participants such as finance, IT, and the supplier community. This session showcases how procurement teams can break the mold of being the “buying department” and expand its sphere of influence by leveraging collaborative processes and technologies.
20 WEALTH PRINCIPLES from SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND
by
T. Hary Eker
To gain mastery over money, you have to understand and apply these principles;
1. Your income can grow only to the extent you do!
That some people’s financial thermostat is set for generating billions, some millions, some thousands, some hundred and some zeros.
Dear Reader, What is your own thermostat?
2. If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots.
If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
We do not live on only one plane of existence.
We live in at least four different realms at once.
These four quadrants are;
The physical world,
The mental world,
The emotional world,
and the spiritual world.
3. Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result.
We live in a world of cause and effect.
4. Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions.
Actions lead to results.
That we are conditioned in three primary ways in every arena of life, including money:
- verbal (hearing),
- modeling (seeing) and
- specific incidents (experience).
5. If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to “prove” yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
6. Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.
7. The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.
8. If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable.
Our conditioning is not who we are but who we learned to be said the writer.
He also added that much of what shapes who you are comes from other people’s beliefs and information.
9. The law of income states that you will be paid in direct proportion to the value you deliver according to the marketplace.
The four factors that determines your value in the market place are
- supply,
- demand,
- quality and
- quantity.
And that many people play small because they are afraid of failure or success and that they feel small.
The writer defines an entrepreneur as a person who solves problems for people at a profit.
Big thinking and big actions lead to having both money and meaning.
10. Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.
The writer advice that if you really want to learn a business, get into it.
Poor people don’t trust in themselves or their abilities, so they believe they have to know everything in advance, which is virtually impossible.
11. The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.
That what really matters is not the size of the problem but
Avalon have been providing accountancy and financial management services to individuals, small and medium sized companies, partnerships, charities, clubs and associations since 1938. We have offices in Reading and Richmond upon Thames and our client base is distributed throughout the southeast and southwest.
Transformer votre gestion de portefeuille pour une entreprise Lean à l'aide d...Agile Montréal
Plusieurs organisations ont commencé à transformer leurs programmes et leurs équipes en mode agile, mais continuent toutefois à gérer leurs portefeuilles en mode traditionnel ou hybride, ce qui ralentit considérablement la transformation et la rend plus complexe et moins productive.
La transformation Lean Agile est basée sur la pensée système ‘system thinking’. La gestion Lean Agile de portefeuille est une composante maîtresse pour réussir cette transformation.
Après avoir clarifier le concept, les défis et les changements introduits par la gestion de portefeuille Lean Agile, selon SAFe,
Je partage avec vous mes trois années d'expérience dans la mise en œuvre de SAFe au niveau de la gestion de portefeuille.
Je vous présente les compétences nécessaires pour réussir cette transition à savoir :
* État d'esprit Lean Agile
* Gestion de Flux de valeur de bout en bout
* Les rôles et le mode collaboratif
* La Gouvernance, la cadence et les évènements de synchronisation
* Bâtir une culture de changement par une gestion de changement itérative
Ali Bentaleb
How Agile support digital transformation - practical lesson at Magestore.comSteve Ngo
How Agile support digital transformation - practical lesson at Magestore.com
***About Magestore***
Magestore là công ty cung cấp giải pháp phần mềm cho các doanh nghiệp bán lẻ. Đối tượng khách hàng chủ yếu là các chuỗi bán lẻ của Mỹ và Châu u. Giải pháp của Magestore được xây dựng based trên nền tảng Magento.
Các bạn có thể xem thêm thông tin về sản phẩm của Magestore tại: https://www.magestore.com
***About Magestore Culture***
Các bạn có thể tìm hiểu thêm nhiều thông tin nữa về con người và văn hóa của Magestore tại website https://insights.magestore.com
***Các vị trí mà Magestore đang tuyển dụng***
Magestore là một công ty phát triển sản phẩm nên cần đội ngũ nhân sự chất lượng cao ở nhiều vị trí như:
#Full-stack Developer, Global Retail Solution #Business Consultant #Digital Marketing Executive #AI Engineer
Các bạn có thể tham khảo thông tin cụ thể về các vị trí tuyển dụng tại link sau:
https://insights.magestore.com/nextgen
Procurement Transformation – Story of Learning JourneySAP Ariba
ASML has been on a journey to use technology, innovation, and collaboration to drive a procurement transformation that brings the function closer aligned with the business. In this session, discover the company's first steps of success that were taken, the trials and tribulations they faced, and how those challenges have shaped the future.
Particular points of discussion will include: collaboration and support between IT, Supply Chain & Finance, process re-design and lifting the procurement capabilities toward world class.
Priority Lists Don't Work - FlowConf 2021Martin Aziz
Presented at Flow Conf 2021.
Lists are a snapshot of the output of some more robust criteria. They represent a 1-dimensional view of multiple dimensional problems. This makes them fragile. The good news is, Kanban helps you manage it all in a more robust way.
What should we work on now, later, and never? When will it be ready? What is the status of our current commitments? Do our teams even have the capability and capacity to deliver on our promises to our customers? These are the challenges and risks that product managers need to manage on a daily basis. In this interactive session, we'll explore ways that Kanban can help you improve decision making, manage risk, improve transparency, and make promises you can keep.
Paper Boats Simulation - Facilitation GuideMartin Aziz
Paper Boats is a game designed to simulate and teach Flow concepts. The game was created by Klaus Leopold. This facilitation guide was used to play the game with over 100 people as part of the Kanban presentation at AgileTO Meetup in July 2019.
The Skill Liquidity Maturity Model (SLiMM) - Not having the skill capabilities available to execute can create significant bottlenecks, introducing delays in your market offerings and ultimately showing up as gaps in your competitiveness.. The Skill Liquidity Maturity Model, an extension of the Kanban Maturity Model, is intended to offer pragmatic thoughts on which approaches may suit your organization.
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
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The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
5. SquirrelNorth
SQUIRRELNORTH
WHAT happens
WHEN DEMAND AND CAPABILITY ARE OUT OF BALANCE?
Quality issues,
causing more delay
and dissatisfaction
Lack of predictability
Overworked but
unproductive
workers
Missed deadlines
DEMAND CAPABILITY
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SQUIRRELNORTH
How do you HANDLE
TOO MUCH DEMAND, NOT ENOUGH CAPACITY?
REFUSE THE WORK
REQUESTS?
HIRE MORE
PEOPLE?
BETTER TRAINING?
DEMAND CAPABILITY
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SQUIRRELNORTH
Kanban has techniques
TO BETTER MANAGE DEMAND & CAPACITY
Improve Capability
Identify and Remove Delay
Bottleneck Handling
Dependency Management
Understanding Variation
Economic Cost Model
Risk Review
Feedback Loops
Liquidity
…
Shape Demand
Cost of Delay
Classes of Service
Board Design
Options Model
Upstream Kanban
Queuing Policy
Decoupled Cadences
Capacity Allocation
…
DEMAND CAPABILITY
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SQUIRRELNORTH
Origin
OFTHEWORD“KANBAN”
• Kanban written in Japanese Kanji (Chinese
characters) means “sign” or “large visual
board”
• The Kanban Method refers both to
a visual signal that capacity is
available, to a “slot” or “bin”
indicating capacity, and to a whole
system of balancing demand for
work with capacity to deliver work.
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2004 – 2019
15 YEARS OF EVOLUTION IN THE KANBAN METHOD
2004
2019
Microsoft XIT
Kanban
Method
Matures
Cost of
Delay
Portfolio
Kanban
2010
STATIK
Upstream
Kanban
ESP
Blue Book
Fit for
Purpose
Framework
Kanban
Maturity
Model
Kanban
Principles
and
Practices
Kanban
Cadences
Kanban
Agendas
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SQUIRRELNORTH
2004 – 2009
PIONEERS PERIOD
Microsoft XIT
Dragos Dumitriu and David Anderson find a
new way to manage work!
• Dealing with overburdening with
distributed teams
• A Pull system emerges
• Identify work services
• Treat different work differently
• Work in Process Limits
• SLAs replace Estimates
• No Boards yet
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SQUIRRELNORTH
2004 – 2009
PIONEERS PERIOD
Mature Kanban Method Emerges
The method matures at Corbis.
• Kanban Visual Boards
• Multiple Class of Service
• WIP Limits as a stressor for
change
• Transparency
• Metrics
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SQUIRRELNORTH
2004 – 2009
PIONEERS PERIOD
Cost of Delay Codified
• The relationship between Cost
of Delay and Class of Service
matures
• Four architypes codified
• Multiple Class of Service
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SQUIRRELNORTH
2004 – 2009
PIONEERS PERIOD
Portfolio Kanban & Big Projects
• $11 million budget project with
up to 55 people
• Multi-tiered Kanban Boards
• Visualizing various team
structures
• Portfolio Level needs to be
treated differently
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2009 – 2014
ENTHUSIASTS PERIOD
THE Blue Book
• David Anderson introduces Kanban to
the broader technology community
• All the concepts for the Kanban
Method are there: Managing
Overburdening WIP Limits,
Visualization, Class of Service,
Principles & Practices, Underpinnings
for STATIK
• Still a top seller!
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2009 – 2014
ENTHUSIASTS PERIOD
STATIK – A WAY TO KICKOFF
• Systems Thinking Approach to
Introducing Kanban
• A way to coherently start or improve
your Kanban implementation
• Guides you to orient yourself as a
service with customers, and to solve
problems affecting this.
• 2014 – Kanban from the Inside, first
book to provide an overview of
STATIK
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ENTHUSIASTS PERIOD
UPSTREAM KANBAN
• The realization that OPTIONS and COMMITED WORK flow differently.
• WIP minimums start to make sense
• Ability to increase Discard Rate and decrease Abandon Rate.
• Visualizing and plan for work that is about to start
• Patrick Steyaert’s book is published much later in 2018
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2014 – 2019
EARLY ADOPTERS
Kanban Principles
and Practices
• Already in common use since 2011, the
P&Ps were published in the book: Essential
Kanban Condensed Guide (Carmichael,
Anderson)
• Focused on being Pragmatic & Actionable
• 6 Principles on Change Management and
Service Delivery
• 6 Core practices
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2014 – 2019
EARLY ADOPTERS
CADENCES
• Evolved from Kanban Kata
introduced in 2012.
• Kanban Community identified
significant feedback loops required
to both operate and improve
services.
• Additional cadences introduced to
further support the 3 Kanban
Agendas.
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2014 – 2019
EARLY ADOPTERS
ENTERPRISE SERVICES PLANNING
Focuses on Organizational Survivability
• Anticipating Demand
• Allocation of Capacity
• Fitness for Purpose
• Visualizing and Aligning on Market
Strategy
• Codifying Risk
• Coherent product and service
selection
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EARLY ADOPTERS
fIT FOR PURPOSE
Published in 2018 by Alexei Zheglov and
David Anderson
• Fitness as a concept explained: your
offering is the one that your
customer’s actual needs are met
• Breaks down 3 aspects of a successful
Product or Service
• Codified ways of measuring for fitness
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2019 +
EARLY MA JORITY
Kanban maturity model
Democratizing Kanban Coaching!
Launched in beta in 2018 it advises
kanban coaching appropriateness
based on linking:
• Culture
• Practices
• Outcomes
Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-For-
Purpose Organizations
by David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva
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EVOLUTION
THROUGH A GLOBAL PEER NETWORK
Method Feedback Loops:
• Kanban Leadership Retreats
• Multiple Online Forums
Outcomes:
• Developing case studies with
empirically observed effects.
• Accepts mutations and novel new
approaches
• Expanding, developing and
codifying repeated successes.
• Filters out the unproven,
unpragmatic and unactionable.
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WHAT IS
THE KANBAN METHOD?
The Kanban Method can be applied at
3 levels:
• Teams to develop sustainable
practices
• Managers to improve their ability to
provide products and services
• Organizations to develop responsive
enterprises that can navigate an
increasingly changing market.
While the Kanban Method is
appropriate in all 3 areas, its
biggest benefits are realized at and
beyond Management. For this
reason it is appropriately referred to
as a Management Method.
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ACHIEVE ORGANIZATIONAL BALANCE THROUGH 5 KEY CONCEPTS
Visual
Models
Improved
Predictability
through Flow
Maximize
Agility
Service
Delivery
Commitment
A Culture of
Respect &
Leadership
Kanban used
as A Management Method
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Visual models
Knowledge Work is largely intangible. Kanban uses
visual models such as boards and metrics to
“unhide” work in progress.
This creates visibility into status and a single point
of truth for collaboration
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Improved Predictability
through Flow
There are many ways in which our work can get
stuck: dependencies on others, rework, unclear
needs, interruptions, and bottlenecks to name a
few. These delays introduce risk to your ability to
provide predictable and reliable products and
services.
The Kanban Method provides techniques to
manage flow, remove delays, and get risks under
control.
STOP
STOP
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MAXIMIZE
AGILITY
Agility is the ability to match the pace
demanded by your market. The more
frequently your market changes, the more
agile you may need to be. Maximize your
agility by offering approaches to manage
your:
• Frequency of starting work
• Speed of delivery
• Consistency of delivery
• Frequency of delivery
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Service Delivery
Commitment
The Kanban Method allows you to
manage your capabilities so that you
can make promises that you can
keep.
With Kanban you can effectively
measure your service, judge the
impact of changes you introduce,
and use data to effectively predict
your delivery capabilities.
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A Culture of Respect
& Leadership
In many companies, the structure of the organization
prevents people from reaching their full potential
The Kanban Method encourages participation
throughout your workforce to lead change.
It is done in an evolutionary way, starting with what
you do now, to avoid change resistance and
introducing unmanaged risks