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21.01.2016 - Klaus Leopold

Blocker Clustering Video (LKNA15)

[section_dd][column_dd span=’12’][text_dd]In May 2015, the Lean Kanban North America conference took place in Miami, FL, United States, and I had the pleasure to speak there as well. The presentations were videotaped, but I totally missed that they were “already” published. But now there it is, highly officially my talk – in color and colorful! “Blockers […]

30.12.2015 - Klaus Leopold

Kanban Article in the iX Magazine

Now, wait a minute, wasn’t there something else?! Oh, yeah! An iX Special Edition about the topic of agile software development and I was able to be part of it. Of course, in such a special edition for IT projects, the topic of Kanban should not be forgotten. Thus, iX requested a contribution from me. […]

28.12.2015 - Katrin Dietze

InfoQ Interview with Klaus

Ben Linders from InfoQ interviewed Klaus during the Goto conference in Berlin. The topic of the interview was “don’t optimize team-level performance” – the title of Klaus’ talk. Agilization and optimization if organizations respectively is by no means intuitive. Some examples: Work is finished faster if we’re bit working all the time. Starting work earlier […]

13.12.2015 - Klaus Leopold

LEANability in China

Klaus is invited to run a Kanban workshop with 50 managers in China. It was sensational! And what Mr. Bösel (Josef Hader) discovered in the movie India, much to his dismay, is really true: “They finish with the soup!!” So much for the understanding of cultures ?

11.12.2015 - Klaus Leopold

Goto Berlin 2015 – A retrospective

On the 3rd and 4th of November 2015, the Goto Conference took place in Berlin. I was invited by Markus Andrezak from ueberproduct to speak during his “On the Boundaries of Agile” track. I was of course happy to oblige. The title of my talk was “Don’t optimize team-level approaches”. It was about the topic that […]

30.11.2015 - Klaus Leopold

Kanban in Centurion and Cape Town

Once again it was time for Kanban trainings in South Africa. This time we had the pleasure of holding both an “Applying Kanban” as well as an “Improving Kanban” training, and all of this in two separate locations. We started with the training for advanced Kanban users “Improving Kanban” in Centurion. This time we did […]

20.11.2015 - Katrin Dietze

Klaus and Kanban at the Lean DUS

“Toll war’s, voll war’s!” (literally: “It was great, it was crowded!”), this is what the sipgate Blog had to say about the last Lean DUS. We, of course, could not agree more. sipgate invited Klaus to speak about the topic “Kanban on a large scale” and more than 140 guest didn’t want to miss out. […]

12.10.2015 - Klaus Leopold

Essential Lean Kanban Video

[section_dd][column_dd span=’12’ animation=’fadeIn’][text_dd] In April 2015, I had the pleasure of speaking at one of the best conferences that I have ever taken part in. The LeanUX 2015 in Brooklyn, New York City. The exciting thing about the LeanUX: 1 track, 1 room, 500 people – the energy of all 500 conference participants was omnipresent in […]

27.09.2015 - Katrin Dietze

Agile Scaling: Kanban!

VERY cool title: “Agile Scaling: Kanban!”, after all it says what it does and it does what it says. Klaus has been invited to the Austrian Testing Board to speak specifically about this current hot topic. And the exciting part about Kanban’s perspective on several teams and projects is that scaling within the world of Kanban […]

24.09.2015 - Katrin Dietze

Interview for the book "Kanban Change Leadership"

It took a while until the Kanban standard work Kanban in der IT by Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker was translated into English. Since June, it has now been available at your local bookstore in English under the title Kanban Change Leadership. Several positive reviews have already been posted which can be found on Amazon. In […]

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