Kaizen - No Kill Switch

10 months agoin management, leadership, Kaizen

Software Engineering Genba

I have an idea that keeps haunting me now and then. To take a break from my current role (a leader of 60+ engineering unit) & go for a temporal (1 month?) contract assignment as an individual contributor - front-line…

a year agoin Kaizen, continuous improvement, awareness

Retrospecting (using head, not some "guide" ...)

This blog post is about: what's wrong with Scrum-ish retrospectives, what's the better alternative, why questioning yourself is nothing about self-doubt or slowing down the decision-making, is it necessary to abandon "retros" and why awareness leads to clarity (and what…

2 years agoin Kaizen, continuous improvement, Buzzwords

Everything Kaizen

This blog post is all about: Kaizen as an attitude (and not a buzzword!), role of everyday flexibility, reducing inertia by dissecting the problems, habit of continuous introspection and in the end - why you should always look for exponential…

7 years agoin Kanban, Kaizen

Power to the people! But they do not want it... About the teams who don't want to be agile.

Smart, agile thought-leaders say: the best architectures and designs come from the self-organizing teams don’t build the the ivory tower - it’s the people who do “the ground work” that know best what are…