Many years ago, I read E.F Schumacher’s book, Small is Beautiful. Schumacher proposed the idea of smallness within bigness as a decentralized, […]
Category: lean
Lean is Cool… Again!
Next week, our @LitheSpeed team heads to the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. For older salts like myself, it’s gratifying […]
Slides from Sanjiv’s Agile DC Lean Management Talk
At the request of the Agile DC conference organizers, here is a copy of my presentation LitheSpeed-Is-Lean-Management-Timeless. Hope you enjoy it! […]
My PMI-ACP Exam Experience
Because I wanted to ensure people taking my class were learning things that are actually on the PMI-ACP exam, I […]
The Gemba Walk
As part of a recent engagement, Bob Payne and I went to assess and coach a group of Agile teams […]
“Steve the Contractor” – Applying Agile and Lean in the Construction Industry
Over the past few years, we’ve been working in scaling agile to the enterprise with the help of Lean, and […]
PODCAST: Bud Phillips on Agile and Lean at Capital One
One of the best podcast interviews I’ve heard is the one that Bob Payne conducted with Bud Phillips in 2006 […]
Arlen Bankston: 5Q’s on Agile
Some time ago, I participated in the PM Boulevard’s 5Q’s on Agile series. Now, it’s my colleague Arlen Bankston’s turn. […]
Worldwide Agile Adoption?
Whew — it’s been quite a while since my last Blog post! Turns out that I’ve been quite busy […]
How are Lean and Agile Related?
In the past few years, we’ve seen the emergence of serious initiatives in understanding and exploiting the connection between Lean […]