Max

Max Good

Mary Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck

Expert Author

Mary Poppendieck has had a diverse career, starting out as a process control programmer and eventually becoming a department manager in product development. She thought about retiring, but instead ended up managing a government software project where she encountered the term "waterfall." She saw that the prevailing opinions on managing software projects did not align with her own successful experiences in software development, leading her to write the award-winning book, Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, in 2003. This explains how the lean principles from manufacturing can offer a better approach to software development.

Mary and her husband Tom continue to teach classes and write books based on their ongoing learning. They have written several books together, including Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash in 2006, Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point in 2009, and The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions in 2013. Mary is known for her writing and speaking on software development, bringing fresh perspectives to the field.

Lean Essays

Felix Lin

Felix Lin

Expert Author

Felix Lin is the CIO and founder of Konfidently, a company that aims to help businesses create a culture and leadership environment that empowers and drives employees to achieve their best. He believes that every person has an "A player" in them, and it's the leader's job to find it and help them stay in that zone. Felix emphasizes the need for individualized leadership training and coaching resources to mentor leaders, which is often missing in small to medium-sized companies. Konfidently offers a set of tools called the Konfident Fit that leaders can use to up their own game and produce elite-level results.

Aside from his work at Konfidently, Felix is a Breakthrough Speaker for the Leadership Academy at Robbins Research International, where he delivers the final breakthrough experience for over 1,000 people. He is also a guest speaker at USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Draper University, where he teaches the Konfident Fit methodology to students to help them understand the kind of organization and leadership where they will thrive. Through his work, Felix is committed to helping people find their "A leader" inside them and achieve their full potential.

Konfident Fit

Mishkin Berteig

Mishkin Berteig

Expert Author

Mishkin Berteig is a co-founder of BERTEIG, committed to transforming individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve Real AgilityTM since 1995. Mishkin has helped various organizations to adopt Agile methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, OpenAgile), change management, culture change, executive management coaching, Agile product, project and operations management, Agile teamwork, and Agile engineering practices. He has authored several books and articles on Agile and management. Mishkin has delivered Agile training worldwide, from three-hour intensive seminars to five-day immersive boot camps for over 20,000 people, including junior team members to senior executives of Fortune 50 organizations.

Mishkin has been a Certified Scrum Trainer since 2005, and the longest-standing CST in Canada. He has advised and trained executives and senior leaders in various organizations, including Charles Schwab, Capital One, Siemens, RBC, and Schlumberger. Mishkin also received Leadership Circle Profile CertificationTM.

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The Scrum Master Guide to Choosing Retrospective Techniques

Succeed as an Agile Coach

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Scrum Insight

Product Owner Bootcamp

Scrum Master Bootcamp

Kanban university

Kanban University

Expert Author

Kanban University which was founded in 2010 by David J Anderson and a group of trusted Kanban enthusiasts, some of whom are still Accredited Kanban Consultants and Trainers today, is the proud “Home” of the Kanban Method! Over the last decade we have grown into an amazing Kanban community that has evolved to over 80 Accredited Kanban Consultants and 340+ Accredited Kanban Trainers who coach and or/teach organizations, teams, and students the Kanban Method globally. To date, over 90,000 students have been certified in the Kanban Method through Kanban University!

The Kanban Method as taught in the Kanban University curriculum is based on Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, by David J Anderson. With the motivation to manage and improve professional service businesses as well as providing humane change method, the roots of the method are found in Lean Manufacturing. However, Kanban is meant to be used to manage knowledge work resulting in intangible and virtual goods and services.

Kanban Guide

Doug Allen

Doug Allen

Expert Author

Doug Allen is a best-selling author, internationally known speaker, and multi-million dollar business consultant. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University with degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Allen worked for the Dept. of Energy developing pattern recognition software for the U.S. Navy's nuclear fleet - including the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier. Allen then used his skills as a software engineer to develop propriety trading algorithms and launched his own $100 million dollar hedge fund complex - making over 100% returns for his 214 accredited investor clients - without a losing year.

Allen has appeared at Date With Destiny & Wealth Mastery with Anthony Robbins, Harvard University, TEDx, numerous hedge fund and financial conferences, and has been a featured guest on national broadcast networks, including MSNBC, FOX and CNBC. Allen is the incredibly proud father of three daughters, and travels between NYC, San Diego Columbus and Puerto Rico.

Peak Results Zero Stress

Time Mastery

David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson

Expert Author

David J. Anderson is the originator of the Kanban Method, and co-creator of the Kanban Maturity Model, the Fit-for-Purpose Framework and Enterprise Services Planning. Focused on management training and leadership development in professional services, intangible goods industries: Helping improve service delivery, strategy, fitness for purpose, operational management and governance of modern businesses.

Management trainer and consultant. Author of six books: Kanban Maturity Model - Evolving Fit For Purpose Organizations; Fit For Purpose - Synthesizing strategy & customer experience for accelerated business results; Essential Kanban Condensed; Lessons in Agile Management; Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business; and Agile Management for Software Engineering.

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KANBAN

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Fit for Purpose

Alexei Zheglov

Alexei Zheglov

Expert Author

Alexei is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Lean A-to-Z, Inc. He founded the firm to bring Lean product development and Kanban to intellectual organizations who seek these modern management ideas and pragmatic guidance to improve their high-technology businesses.

As the firm's principal consultant, Alexei has consulted and trained professionals, managers, executives and coaches on five continents. His clients represent a wide range of industries. Alexei thrives in complex environments, helping leaders and teams find their unique improvement paths.

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Fit for Purpose

Various Authors

12 Rules for Life

By: Jordan Peterson

7 Lessons For Leading In A Crisis

By: Bill George

Atomic Habits

By: James Clear

Best Self

By: Mike Bayer

Best Self - Spheres

By: Mike Bayer

Build an A Team

By: Whitney Johnson

Built to Last - Clock Building, Not Time Telling

By: Jim Collins

Built to Last - Cult-like Cultures

By: Jim Collins

Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown

Decisive

By: Chip And Dan Heath

Delivering Happiness

By: Tony Hsieh

Difficult Conversations - 3 Hidden Talks and 5 Steps to Success in Conversation

By: Douglas Stone

Difficult Conversations - 5 Steps to Maximizing Success in Difficult Conversations

By: Douglas Stone

Drive

By: Daniel Pink

Drive - Mastery

By: Daniel Pink

Everybody Matters

By: Bob Chapman

Everybody Matters - A New Way to Lead

By: Bob Chapman

Fierce Leadership - Fierce Practice 4 - From Employee Engagement Programs to Actually Engaging Employees

By: Susan Scott

Fierce Leadership - Fierce Practice # 1 - From 360 Degree Anonymous Feedback to “365” Face-to-Face Feedback.

By: Susan Scott

Getting Things Done

By: David Allen

Getting Things Done - Organize

By: David Allen

Good to Great

By: Jim Collins

Leaders Eat Last

By: Simon Sinek

Leadership & Self Deception

By: Arbinger Institute

Leadership in Turbulent Times

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Made to Stick

By: Chip And Dan Heath

Making Ideas Happen

By: Scott Belsky

Managing (Right) For The First Time

By: David Baker

Mastering The Rockefeller Habits - Priorities: Mastering the Quarterly Theme

By: Verne Harnish

Mastering The Rockefeller Habits - The Three Decisions and Three Habits

By: Verne Harnish

Motivational Management

By: Mike Crandall

Neuromarketing

By: Christopher Morin and Patrick Renvoise

Performing Under Pressure

By: Hendrie Weisinger J.P. Pawliw-Fry

Positive Intelligence - How to Weaken your Saboteurs

By: Shirzad Chamine

Positive Intelligence - The Ten Saboteurs

By: Shirzad Chamine

Read this Before our Next Meeting

By: Al Pittampalli

Rumsfeld's Rules

By: Donald Rumsfeld

Servant Leadership In Action

By: Ken Blanchard Renee Broadwell

Synergist

By: Les McKeown

Team of Teams - Part I: The Proteus Problem

By: Stanley McChrystal

Team of Teams - Part II: From Many, One

By: Stanley McChrystal

Team of Teams - Part III: Sharing (Shared Consciousness)

By: Stanley McChrystal

Team of Teams - Part IV: Letting Go (Empowered Execution)

By: Stanley McChrystal

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

By: John Maxwell

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

By: Chris McChesney

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By: Stephen R. Covey

The 80/20 Principle

By: Richard Koch

The 80/20 Principle - 80/20 101

By: Richard Koch

The Character Based Leader

By: Lead Change Group

The Dichotomy of Leadership

By: Jocko Willink Leif Babin

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

By: Verne Harnish

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

By: Patrick Lencioni

The Laws of Human Nature

By: Robert Greene

The Leader Who Had No Title

By: Robin Sharma

The Leadership Gap

By: Lolly Daskal

The Leadership Gap - The Hero

By: Lolly Daskal

The Significance Factor

By: Wayne Pernell

Think Again - Part I: Individual Rethinking

By: Adam Grant

Think Again - Part II Interpersonal Rethinking: Opening Other People's Minds

By: Adam Grant

Thinking Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

Tribal Leadership

By: Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

Unlimited Power - Clarity of Values

By: Tony Robbins

Unlimited Power - Passion

By: Tony Robbins

Upstream

By: Dan Heath

Upstream - Seven Questions for Upstream Leaders

By: Dan Heath

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Changing for the better

By: Marshall Goldsmith

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Habits worth breaking

By: Marshall Goldsmith

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Success Attainment Blinkers

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Who - Finding A Players

By: Geoff Smart Randy Street

Who - Source

By: Geoff Smart Randy Street