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Articles by Klaus Leopold
The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership
TCZ Episode #120: Klaus Leopold: Reinventing Agile: Why High-Performing Teams Isn’t The Answer Before, during and for sure post the immediate crisis of #Covid-19, organisations today are having to reinvent themselves faster than ever before. As a behaviour change expert working with senior teams, I tend to focus on the human system itself rather than operational systems and processes. Clearly both relationships and tasks need to be reimagined for companies to adapt and thrive.
Practical Kanban
The Kanban board is constructed, the swim lanes are drawn and the blockade stickers are positioned. Now what? Kanban is not able to reach its full potential in many companies. Often, the meaning behind the individual practices, such as WIP limits, is not correctly understood. All hope is placed in a method instead of actions. Kanban helps uncover the weak points in a work system, and as a result, reveals how to better generate value for the customer.
Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban
Key Takeaways The book Practical Kanban helps you to implement improvements in an organization. Teams are not the Holy Grail of improvement work, and in many cases, it is counterproductive to optimize teams since this leads to sub-optimization of the entire work system. Retrospectives should not be purely team events; it makes sense to bring customers and stakeholders on the journey towards improvement. The most important metrics of a flow-based work system are cycle time and throughput.
Don’t Optimize Teams
Der Titel meines Talk auf der Lean Kanban North America 2016 Konferenz in San Diego war eine recht direkte Ansage: Don’t optimize teams! Der größte Fehler, den die meisten Agile Transformationen machen ist, dass sie Teams „agilisieren“ und dann hoffen, dass damit automatisch die Organisation agil ist.
Using Blocker Clustering, Defect Clustering, and Prioritization for Process Improvement
Teams use kanban boards to visualize work and track progress during the development process. When work gets delayed (it’s blocked), it is of particular interest to look for ways to decrease cycle time and improve the smooth flow of work by resolving the causes of that delay. A common technique used by teams is to add a red Post-it note with a brief reason to the blocked work ticket.
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