Leadership in Kanban

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and the shares the vision that inspires others to build it. Jan Carlzon – Moments of Truth Leadership is a Foundation Principle of the Kanban Method in that it should – “Encourage acts of leadership at all levels in your organization – from individual contributor toContinue reading “Leadership in Kanban”

Value of Kanban

Kanban boards are all the rage and have been for a long time now. Most “planning” software has some form of Kanban view of your data – heck even big old Salesforce gives you a “kanban” view of things. But the real value of a “real” Kanban board is in the underpinning values used toContinue reading “Value of Kanban”

Leaders are temporary

A couple of years ago the Collab@Work blog wrote a very interesting article on how leadership in MMORPG’s, such as World of Warcraft is temporary. They provided reasons why in these MMORPG’s it makes sense to have temporary leaders: In those games, leadership is a temporary position. At one point in time, you’re leading, theContinue reading “Leaders are temporary”