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Kaizen Camp Australia 2013 event reflection

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Kaizen Camp was held in Melbourne this week, 20-21 May 2013.  Kaizen Camp is an unconference held in the style of Lean Coffee with 8 sessions, 60 attendees and over 50 topics discussed.  It was the first Kaizen Camp in … Continue reading →

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LAST Conference 2012 Notes

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

Last week I attended the LAST Conference (Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking) held at Swinburne University.  The LAST Conference is a big departure from the Agile Australia 2012 conference I attended earlier this year.  There was no fanfare, no big build … Continue reading →

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Innovation through customer collaboration and feedback

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

Nordstrom is one of USA’s leading fashion specialty retailers and is a Fortune 500 company (2011 – ranked 254).  When I think of a fashion retail company, innovation isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.  So how does a … Continue reading →

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Lean Software Management BBC Worldwide Case Study is Published

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

I first knew David Joyce, a Systems Thinker and Agile practitioner, through the local Limited WIP Society user group in Melbourne and in more recent times I have had an opportunity to know and work with him.  David is one … Continue reading →

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How People and Process Enabled Facebook to become a Phenomenal Company

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

I came across a case study on Facebook and how two key factors that contributed to Facebook’s success: people – in particular Mark Zuckerberg himself – and process – ‘moving fast’. Facebook has a culture of speed and values moving fast … Continue reading →

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Lean and Agile – Doing more with less

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Have you been in a similar situation as the above Dilbert? Lean and Agile is about doing more with less.  Lean and Agile doesn’t focus primarily on cost reduction, but more on strategic alignment around enterprise agility – reducing waste … Continue reading →

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Large-Scale Agile

Posted on February 28, 2010 by

Despite that we are still yet to finish the current scope of work for the Agile Initiatives, we are starting to discuss future items in our backlog – distributed Agile and Agile@Scale. There are a few projects in flight that … Continue reading →

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