This post is respectfully dedicated to Luke Hohmann’s friend Martha.

This is the first episode of this series: Kanban and Lean.
As stated in the “community of thinkers” we believe individuals should never become the bottleneck to learning. Therefore we have created this list of people we have learned from. While we may not agree with every idea they have, each conversation we have had and [...]

As stated in the “community of thinkers” we believe individuals should never become the bottleneck to learning. To enable others to learn from you even when you are not around it is essential to share the path you have walked.
And when following the path of others, think for yourself and create your own opinion. With [...]

Lean has many valuable principles, ideas and concepts. It’s during the implementation that we have come across some problems with these principles when applied to software development. In this article we’ll discuss three lean principles and explain how we improved these principles by using real options.

Dave Snowden has released an excellent video on complexity and children’s parties ( See it here on Andy Pols’s Blog. Dave’s video inspired this piece which is a compliment to Dave and the video. )
I have two small children who live in a party rich area where the preference is to have a party at [...]

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I (Chris)  do not often write blog posts these days. I see them as announcements rather than an invitation to a conversation. I prefer the interactive discussion of e:mail groups, or [...]

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Whenever we talk about real options and especially when mentioning “Never commit early unless you know why. ” we get asked “what is the optimal time to execute the option?”. The answer: there is none.
Determining the perfect moment to execute an option is nothing more than pure luck. The only way to determine you have [...]

This is the first publication of the 2 sample pages we have drafted for our upcoming book. Andy Belanger is the artist who drew the pictures.
This first page sample is likely to be the first page of the book. In this first page we meet our star of the book and quickly set the mood.

In [...]

This is a short post.
Chris has just finished drawing another cartoon, this time about the information arrival process. The comic explores how information is currently flowing in projects and how it should be flowing to improve progress.
Let us know what you think.