Pretty Agile blog posts about Lean

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lean-Agile Leaders

Em Campbell-Pretty - December 07, 2021

In May 2018, Adrienne Wilson and I had the privilege of participating in a Lean Study Tour of Japan hosted by Katie Anderson. We distilled the leadership lessons from this trip down to seven key habits. In 2020, Em was invited to share these habits Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Agile, Leadership, Lean

Podcast: Why Agile Transformations Fail

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 31, 2018

At the inaugural SAFe Regional Summit in Frankfurt, I was luck enough to chat with Gez Smith about Why Agile Transformations Fail (and what you can do to prevent it...) We discuss whether lean is Japanese, the role of discipline in an agile Read more...

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Interviews

Tags: Agile, Agile Transformation, Japan, Lean, SAFe, Scaling Agile, Toyota

12 Lean Habits of the 21st-Century Technology Leader

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 21, 2017

Lean is the term the Western world has come to use for the Toyota Production System (TPS).1 Created by Taiichi Ohno, TPS aims to reduce the time between a customer order and payment for the delivery of a vehicle by “reducing the non-value Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Leading Change, Lean, Learning, Middle Management, One Team Culture, Respect for People, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Visualisation

The Magic Carpet Ride- A Business Perspective on DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 19, 2016

Having problems convincing your stakeholders to try DevOps? Confused about how DevOps can work at scale? Or even just wondering where to start with DevOps? Don’t worry you aren’t the only one! Imagine being the business owner of an Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, CI/CD, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change, Lean, LKCE15, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Switch

Scrum of Scrums with Feature Flow

Em Campbell-Pretty - March 11, 2015

Last year, I wrote about the communication cadence and, in particular, the daily feature wall stand-up that was the heartbeat of the EDW Agile Release Train. Recently, I received an email from someone who had read this post and wanted to know Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Release Train, Cocktail Hour, EDW Release Train, Flow, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum of Scrums, Visualisation

Context Matters in SAFe

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 05, 2014

At Agile Australia this year I took some time out to talk with Craig Smith, Tony Ponton and Renee Troughton from The Agile Revolution about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Impact Mapping. You can read a summary of the discussion and Read more...

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Interviews

Tags: Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, Book Club, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Impact Mapping, Inspect & Adapt, Leadership, Lean, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 5 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 23, 2013

Thursday De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces Al Shalloway Al provided a very thorough and complete explanation of the various flavours of Kanban. He covered: Kanban as a signal Kanban as a Team Development Read more...

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Conferences