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About the Book
In the mid-2010s, we faced the same breakdowns you’re seeing today:
• Backlogs exploding faster than teams can deliver
• Endless WIP, constant firefighting
• Ceremonies for ceremony’s sake
Holy Land Kanban is the story of how teams in Israel discovered a gentler, principle-led path:
- Visualize Flow: We moved from buried work to bright Kanban boards.
- Limit WIP: We reclaimed focus by capping in-flight work.
- Pull‐Based Delivery: We stopped pushing “features” and let teams pull when ready.
- Feedback Rhythms: We replaced noisy stand-ups with lightweight cadences that actually drove learning.
- Evolutionary Change: We let the system evolve—one change at a time—rather than big-bang rewrites.
Why It’s Still Relevant
The chapters you’ll read about “Limiting WIP” and “Kanban cadences” feel as urgent now as they did in 2015. Today’s AI experiments, cross-functional product ops, and “scaled” portfolio rollouts all stumble over the same traps you’ll find here—yet the solution remains the same:
- Make work visible
- Respect context and capacity
- Improve collaboratively, step by step
Who Should Read It
- Product leaders wrestling with dozens of AI pilots
- Transformation leads disillusioned by heavy frameworks
- Engineering managers seeking a lightweight operating model
You won’t find new buzzwords or top-down mandates. You’ll find stories, principles, and practices that you can apply today—and still rely on in ten years.
About the Author
Yuval spends his days helping organizations improve. As a leading consultant with the international lean agile consulting company AgileSparks he trains and coaches managers and teams in Kanban/Scrum/Agile approaches. He enjoys writing about his thoughts and experiences in his blog at http://yuvalyeret.com.Yuval relies on 18 years of experience managing IT and Product Development organizations. Yuval is an active internationally-acknowledged member of the Lean Kanban community and has been nominated twice to recieve the Lean SSC Brickell Key Award for new talent.He is trying to find more time to write, when not playing professional Volleyball , reading, and keeping up to speed on a variety of professional topics.