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How to run your first improvement kata
The improvement kata can solve problems that typical retrospectives fail to address. Although there is a halo of mystery around it, it’s actually not that di...
Lessons learned from running our first improvement kata
During the past few weeks, I blogged the story of our first improvement kata.
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 5
This is the fifth (and last) post of a series of 5 about the improvement kata. If you haven’t read the beginning of the story, I recommend you start from par...
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 4
This is the fourth post on a series of 5 about the improvement kata. If you haven’t read the beginning of the story, I recommend you start from part 1.
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 3
This is the third post on a series of 5 about the improvement kata. If you haven’t read the beginning of the story, I recommend you start from part 1.
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 2
In my previous post, I described the productivity issue our team was facing. How retrospectives did not work, and how I started looking at the improvement ka...
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 1
If you are serious about continuous improvement, you should learn the improvement kata.