LEAN THINKING AND FLOW ECONOMICS

Lean thinking focuses on flow, feedback, and reducing waste. These principles form the foundation for understanding why frameworks work and when they fail.

Little’s Law
Queues
Utilization
Cycle Time
Time-to-Market
Small Batch Size
Work-in-Process (WIP)
Waste
Continuous Improvement
Increase Capacity by Reducing Rework
Fast, Cheap, or Good – Pick One
Finding Bottlenecks
Cadence
Short Horizon Plans
Variability
Valuable Work Items
Job Sequencing and Prioritization
Plans, Batch Size, and Cycle Time

TEAMS

Leveraging the power of collective wisdom over the individual

The Purpose of Teams

KANBAN

Strategy of visualization of the flow of work through a system

Kanban Fundamentals
Four Dimensions of Status in Kanban
The Power of Cycle Time
How to Improve Cycle Time
Scrum or Kanban
How to take over any Organization with Kanban
Item Aging
Kanban Your Backlog
Make Queues Visible in Kanban
Predictability

SCRUM

A lightweight framework for solving complex problems with adaptive solutions

Visual Scrum Guide 2020
Scrum and Monopoly
Uncertainty
Size Product Backlog Items with DRIPS
Product Backlog Refinement
Scrum Master Confidence vs Awareness
A Possible Sprint Backlog
Scrum Master Level Up
Scrum Master Level Up II
Rethinking Retrospectives
Technical Debt and the DoD
Customizing Scrum
Agile vs. Scrum
Iteration Length and Cycle Time
Estimating the Value of Story Points

MANAGEMENT

The sacred responsibility to hire and care for people in your employ to the benefit of the Company

One On One Meetings
Network and Hierarchy
Interviewing
Performance vs Control
Measures & Metrics
Expanding IT Capacity Death Spiral
Focus Feedback on Behavior
Stop Doing Annual Reviews
Zombie Apocalypse
The Business Lifecycle
Here or There

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Taking responsibility for coordinating, communicating, and completing defined work on-time and on-budget.

How to pass the PMP Exam
Project Mgt != Waterfall
Project Manager to Scrum Master
What is an Agile Project Manager?
There is no Hybrid Model
Agile, Flow, or Product Operating Model
A Construction Paradigm Made Cultural Imperative