Essentials for Effective LPM Aug 07, 2024

Ten Essential LPM Behaviors

Don’t cripple your LPM implementation

A few years back I helped several large companies in adopting lean portfolio approaches at the same time, and the same set of questions around “what matters most?” kept coming up. People found the “do...

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Understanding and changing your constraints Jul 16, 2024

As I'm teaching today*, I was reminded of a way I used to describe system constraints back when I taught a lot of kanban classes and helped design kanban systems. This quick post captures them for reference and to seed a discussion. 

This post was originally created in 2020, and was recently...

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What is executive commitment, really? Jul 08, 2024

If only our executives would commit, we could…

“They” don’t support what we’re trying to do…

 

Interesting words. What do you really want from “them”? Who is this “them” anyway? Is it one leader? Is it a team? Is it really the...

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What do I ask in an Empathy Interview? Jan 01, 2024

This is a republished post from ~2017 that was originally hosted on ericwilleke.com. It is part of a four-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) on how to use empathy interviews to prepare for facilitated events with unfamiliar people and teams. - Eric Willeke

The hardest part of preparing...

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Are you ready for your empathy interviews? Dec 31, 2023

This is a republished post from ~2017 that was originally hosted on ericwilleke.com. It is part of a four-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) on how to use empathy interviews to prepare for facilitated events with unfamiliar people and teams. - Eric Willeke

Empathy...

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What is an empathy interview? Dec 30, 2023

A customer recently asked how I defined an “empathy interview.” Because she needed to explain it to the leadership team around her, I needed to provide a better answer than my typical stammering about “understanding” and “being ready” and...

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