Podcast #47. What Is Kanban? Interview With LeanKit.

In this episode of The Project Shrink podcast I am talking to Jon Terry, COO of LeanKit, the online Kanban tool. We talk about Kanban: What is it? What are the benefits? How can you get started? LeanKit is a sponsor of The Project Shrink blog. Click here if you can’t see the video. Click …

Welcome To Shrinkonia.

I didn’t recognize Hannibal at first. Although the dinosaur suit and the cigar should have triggered some alarm bells. I was going to hire the A-Team. Some things needed to be taken care off. Some would say “projects”. But the A-Team isn’t going to show up for “projects”, so I said I had a Big …

6 Ways To Beat Any Project Planning

Edit: Just to make sure… this is not “real” advice. This is just a sarcastic post about behavioral patterns and it should illustrate for example why you must be clear on goals and tasks. It should make you more aware, so you can spot these patterns. [SARCASM] Project Managers and Middle Managers have the tendency …

Experiment For Your Project Survival

What is killing thousands of projects per week? The fact that we have no clue what is happening in our project and its environment, and still act as if we have paranormal gifts that allow us to predict the future. We are too stupid to understand reality. So, there I said it. Again. But what …