Kick off your book project in 3 hours! Live workshop on Zoom. You’ll leave with a real book project, progress on your first chapter, and a clear plan to keep going. Saturday, May 16, 2026. Learn more…
In the mid-2010s, I watched teams drown under unrelenting backlogs, firefighting at every turn, and ceremonies that solved nothing. Holy Land Kanban tells the true story of how we sketched our first Kanban board in Israel—and discovered an alternative to “Agile By the Book.” In these pages you’ll learn how to:Make work visible, so no task lurks in shadowLimit WIP, freeing teams to finish rather than fragmentPull delivery, letting demand guide flow instead of pushing chaosEstablish feedback rhythms that drive real learningEvolve your system one experiment at a timeWhether you’re piloting dozens of AI projects, grappling with product-ops complexity, or simply seeking speed without spin, these timeless Kanban patterns will help you regain clarity, calm, and traction—today and for years to come.
Perhaps you've been a team manager, project manager, or possibly a business analyst. You may be a tester or even a software developer. Maybe you've been through a good number of projects and have experienced the highs of success and fallen in a few potholes along the way. Well, your team or organization has decided that they want to "go Agile" and you've been volun-told to be the ScrumMaster. Congratulations! You've had a few days of training, but now what?
Reach for your language and standard library instead of reaching for external code. Get the most out of your Go distribution and leverage the amazing standard library to solve your programming problems.
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This ebook on A3 Problem Solving is meant to demystify some of what people know and hear about A3s
A curated collection of my essays about cultures, people, and teams from my blog. Discover how something as simple as coffee can demonstrate how "normal" is inherently context-dependent, what ducks can teach us about translation, and why a sales person told me that he wouldn't use his company's software either. [See note about pricing, below.]
A quarter-century of experience shipping software, distilled into fixnum bittersweet essays.