A blog post on executive leadership inspired by conversation with Angie Main, Andrzej Zińczuk, Andy Carmichael, Ben Maynard, Bjarte Bognes, Brendan Wovchko, Charles Bradley, Daniel Doiron, Daniel Vacanti, Dave Snowden, Dave West, David Dame, Don McGreal, Erich R. Bühler, Erik Weber, Fin Goulding, Haydn Shaughnessy, Jackie Thoms, Jill Graves, John Seddon, Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema, Liz Keogh, Mark Noneman, Marshall Goldsmith, Mike Burrows, Nader Talai, Ron Eringa, Steve Porter, and Thomas Power

Kanban for Complexity™ is itself on an empirical Direction of Travel, and it is designed to support the Cynefin™ Sense Making Framework’s complicated (domain of experts) & complex (domain of emergence) domains, regardless of the type of knowledge work, regardless of whether (customer and/or knowledge) value can be delivered in 4 weeks or less.

Context is 1000s of people, with a huge appetite for varying levels of agility, and low appetite for risk, with so much enthusiasm that any collaborative workshop is called a "Scrum"

Just how much do the original Lean and Agile grate against each other. What does John Coleman recommend you do if they co-exist in your organziation?

We're told to "Start with Why". Star rate 28 potential reasons for pursuing agility.

John Coleman with support from Nader Talai uses Toyota Kata to amplify flow based retrospectives / service delivery reviews.

John Coleman tells us the results of his worldwide experiments with an advanced version of Featureban, that deals with the ageing of work and the optimization of work in progress to improve the delivery rate and lead time. Supported by Andy Carmichael and Nader Talai.

Don't add a blocked column use blocked annotations to work items, don't discard the annotation until you've carried out a root cause analysis.

Bottom line - Scrum.org announced the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams in February 2018. Optimization of the flow of value is improved by the implementation of work in progress limits. The results are dramatic. WiP limits must be applied to improve flow of the delivery of value. It's a key lever to improve the performance of Professional Scrum Teams.

Use the Kanban Method to study our system of work, map its flow, visualise the flow of work using tokens that represent the work, measure the system capabilities and act on the system of work to improve the flow of value to our customers.

Five steps to visualise your work as a Kanban system and how to improve it.