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5 minutes retrospective

Looking for a way to give your team a kick start at the retrospective meeting? Try having a 5 minutes retrospective – I’ll tell you how… Invite your team for the usual time slot allocated…


Plan for success

Do you plan for success when conducting sprint planning? In a misunderstood urge of striving for success many teams over commit when planning sprints. This can often be witnessed at sprint demos where many of…


Toyota’s six rules

In order to have a well-functioning Kanban setup one must agree on a basic set of rules of usage. The mother of all Kanban implementors is Toyota who, guided by the father of Kanban –…


Key motivators for failing at kanban

Working with a wide range of teams adopting Kanban, I’ve looked into what are the common pitfalls or caveats for a coach when starting up. The information I present here is mainly gathered from system…


3-step adoption pattern for Kanban

Starting up a new team is alway a fun and exciting challenge. During my time as agile coach I have found a nice pattern that most team follows which breaks down to the following phases:…