Category Archives: lean

Reflecting Reality

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Liz

One of the things I often do as a coach is help people to set up their visual boards, whether physical or electronic. Sometimes that can be surprisingly hard for teams to do without a bit of guidance, so I … Continue reading →

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LSSC 2012

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Liz

A lot of times when I go to conferences, I’ve already got a slew of half-formed ideas and thoughts from the amazing communities with whom I hang out. The conferences have been fantastic for helping me refine and validate those … Continue reading →

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Lean Software and Systems Conference, Atlanta

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Liz

I’ve been invited to speak at the Lean Software and Systems Conference in Atlanta, April 21st to 23rd 2010. BDD, often described as “TDD done well”, is strongly aligned with Lean principles. It’s a pull-based approach to delivering software that … Continue reading →

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Kanban thinking: hungry vs. peckish

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Liz

I just read Michael Dubakov’s excellent post on Kanban psychology, and the shift in thinking from the habits we’re taught to a more rational behaviour. This post made me remember what it was like, being a developer who’s discouraged from … Continue reading →

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Change, and keep changing

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Liz

Sometimes people ask me, “When we’ve gone Agile… when we are fully Lean… what will it look like?” The only answer I can come up with is this: Things will be changing. You’ll be in a better place to respond … Continue reading →

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A Coaching Kanban board

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Liz

Chris McMahon mentioned my example of a coaching kanban board in the second of his series of posts against Kanban. That it comes across as simple and infantile in Chris’s example is my fault; I only really touched on the … Continue reading →

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The Lean software production line

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Liz

Andy, the release manager at my current client, asked, “How can I get the teams to follow a consistent process where readying the release for deployment is concerned? We have different version control systems, different build processes… how do I … Continue reading →

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Pulling Power and Kanban experiences

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Liz

My first ever article, “Pulling Power: a new Software Lifespan” is up on InfoQ. BDD, Feature Injection, Lean and Kanban playing nice together! Big thanks to Dan North, Chris Matts, David Anderson, Amr Elssamadisy and the amalgam of developers who … Continue reading →

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Empowerment

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Liz

Simon Baker has written a superb post, capturing the elusive nature of empowerment. He mentions “an environment that tolerates mistakes to cultivate learning”. For me, this is an essential part of innovation; of the Lean metaphor that suggests a Software … Continue reading →

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