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Should Teams Use Kanban, Instead of Scrum or LeSS?

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Register: Sunday, September 19, 2021. 12:00 PM EST: Can Kanban be used with/instead of LeSS or Scrum? WHO is asking and WHY? “Can Kanban be used in conjunction with LeSS (or instead of LeSS)?” – this is the question that we hear all too often. Since LeSS is Scrum (nb: organizational design impact of LeSS is … Read more

Scrum and Kanban at the Enterprise and Team Levels

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Scrum, as the most structured of all Agile frameworks, is a great way to ensure predictable, strategically planned, incremental product delivery. Scrum ensures good responsiveness to frequently changing market demands. Although nonprescriptive, Scrum clearly defines certain roles, responsibilities, and ceremonies. Kanban, for the most part, is silent about certain aspects that Scrum suggests explicitly (e.g., … Read more

Story Point Estimation & Velocity

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Use story points to strengthen shared understanding, support realistic forecasting, and guide delivery toward valuable product outcomes. 1. Establish the Right Foundation Build a shared conceptual understanding of relative estimation before introducing story points, so every participant understands that points express comparison rather than elapsed time. Use relative estimation with a collaborative team of two … Read more

Salesforce Support

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Why KSTS Consulting? Sales Operations, CRM Strategy, Enterprise Process Optimization Salesforce Administration/Development Organizational Design: Multi-Team Salesforce Agile Development Download One-Page Summary Why KSTS Consulting? KSTS Consulting brings together a rare combination of deep SaaS product expertise, hands-on Salesforce experience, Artificial Intelligence (AI) enablement, organizational transformation, and world-class coaching and training. Our consultants understand not only … Read more

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

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Organizations rarely transform in a single step. While many aspire to become product-centric and fully aligned around business value, most still operate within familiar constructs—portfolios, programs, projects, annual budgets, and governance checkpoints. This creates a natural tension: the desire to move faster and adapt continuously, while still maintaining structure, predictability, and control. Lean Portfolio Management … Read more

About Gene Gendel

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Tweet Self-Introduction (Short Video) | Resume (.pdf) | Full Professional Biography Thank you for listening to my short (under 7 min.) self-introduction.   Hopefully, in conjunction with my resume, posted below, and with the overall content of my web site (this site), it can provide a fair initial impression about me and my work. Sincerely,  Gene Gendel … Read more

Local Optimization: Fragmented Agility. Root Causes. Consequences.

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In recent years, organizations across industries have ramped up efforts to become “agile”—not just in IT, but across entire enterprises. Yet, many of these initiatives fall flat, not because agility itself is flawed, but because the coaching structures and strategies designed to enable agility are deeply broken.  One of the most common patterns is fragmented coaching. … Read more

LeSS Talks: Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems, with Gene Gendel

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  Graphic Materials Used:        The following challenges were touched upon: In a rush, to become agile, did your organization adopt an “operating model”, by incorrectly copy-pasting something that has been well known in the industry for year but required a much deeper understanding, before implementing? In a rush, to become product-centric … Read more