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 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 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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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.
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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.
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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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Fit for Purpose
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.
Fit for Purpose
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