Agile Complexification Inverter

Concept of Product Development Flow "I believe that the dominant paradigm for managing product development is fundamentally wrong.  Not just a little wrong, but wrong to its very core.  It is as wrong as we were in manufacturing, before the Japanese unlocked the secret of lean manufacturing.  I believe that a  new paradigm is emerging, one that challenges the current orthodoxy of product development."  -- Donald Reinertsen Reinertsen goes beyond the advance ideas of lean manufacturing, what he calls Flow-Based Product Development. Scrum was sparked by a paper called The New New Product Development Game by  Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka (1986).  Are you seeing a synergy of ideas? Lean principle of Flow In the manufacturing world Toyota exemplifies the achievements one may obtain in 50 years of practicing a new mindset of principles.  Manufacturing deals with repetitive tasks predictable processes to produce component parts, hom...

How would you visualize the value stream of a restaurant? A great teaching example for a team wishing to start Kanban. How do you like to visualize the concurrent activities of beverage service and meal preparations?  I like to see them stacked (not sequential). Hat tip to Derek Wade of Kumdio Adaptive Strategies  for the simulation. This Kanban works very well for the front of the house, but what about the back of the house (the kitchen in restaurant lingo)?  What would the kitchen's kanban board look like? See Also: Why I Use a Paper Kanban Board - Johana Rothman How Personal Kanban Changed My Life -LeadingAgile Which Agile Process Should You Choose? A comparison of Kanban, Scrum, XP, & other processes.

Best quote: "Significant Impostor Syndrome" 2013 Brickell Key Award nominations video. Published on  Oct 24, 2013 Nominee recognition video for the Brickell Key awards, presented at LeanKanban North America 2013 in Chicago IL, USA. Video by Derek Wade.   Music: Thomas Newman - "American Beauty" Spollier Alert!!! The winners were Yuval Yeret and Troy Magennis. See Also: http://leankanban.com/brickell-key/   the award page.

Want to retain something you just heard - draw a doodle. Want to engage learners - get them active. Want to teach someone a skill - have them teach you. Want to change some behavior - make it fun. In all of these techniques the trick is to invert the traditional training paradigm.  The classroom was created to process children with unique talents into factory workers willing to follow directions of an authority. Doodlers, unite! Sunni Brown on TED.com Read Sharon Bowman's ' Training from the BACK of the Room! '. Don't think you can doodle - come out of the closet with these techniques from Dan Roam ' Back of the Napkin '. Maybe it all comes down to improvement, and the need to iterate - to recreate to improve . One can not doodle on the power-point slide one the screen. One can not quickly annotate a burndown chart in that spreadsheet (a learning moment). One can not give the marker to a participant and have them draw a diagr...