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Topics Previously Covered at Kaizen Camp
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The People Who Come to Kaizen Camp, Define Kaizen Camp
Kaizen Camp is BYOT (Bring Your Own Topic).
At Kaizen Camp, the topics are dynamically generated by the participants. That way, the discussions are always relevant and lively.
Here is a sampling of previous topics covered (look close, you will find business operations, time management, project planning, value delivery, portfolio planning, HR – all aspects of business and life represented):
- What Does the “Future of Work” Look Like?
- What is Vision? Leadership? Process Improvement? Why Do Them?
- Accountability & Responsibility for Process Improvement, Lean etc.
- Lean & the Montessori Educational Approach
- Lean & Publishing: How Lean Can Help You Write a Book
- Intro to Personal Kanban
- Intro to the Cynefin Problem Solving Model
- Going Sideways: Viral Lean Implementation
- What is Lean/Agile HR?
- Agile/Lean Project/Portfolio Management
- Couple Dancing & Pair Programming
- Worker Motivation & Gamification
- Aligning Vision & Action
- Developing & Using Conflict Clouds to Create a Win-Win Solution
- How To Start a New Team of Expert Agilists That Have Never Worked Together
- Has Mother Nature Meshed with Your Lean Journey?
- Lean & Scrum: Inevitably in Conflict?
- Improving Estimation Through…
- How Does QA Fit Into Kanban/Lean
- The Language of Lean: Making it About People Not Process
- Measurement Paradox
- Tools For Doing Lean Projects
- Work Tiny
- Stages of Practice: The Tech Tree
- Distributed Lean for Open-Source Coding/Crowdsourcing Analytics
- Hiring Lean People Who Don’t Know It Yet
- Lean Skunkworks in a Traditional Company
- Kanban for DevOps
- Accelerating Innovation: Learning & Process Mapping
- Are You making the Right Thing For Your Users
- Beyond Deadlines
- Building Trust by Getting Personal with Visual Speak
- Choose Your Own Adventure: Extreme Self-Org…or Open-Space Work
- Complexity & Dependency Management
- Creating High-Performing Teams by Making It Personal
- Critical Chain Project Management
- Cynefin Applied
- Cynefin Framework: Managing Complex Systems
- Decision Making w/Your Whole Body
- Failing Well
- How Do We Make Requirement Development Visible
- How To Bring Lean Practices to Your Community
- How Might We Communicate Business Value Outside the Team
- How to Respond to “This Sucks But It’s Out of My Control”
- How We Can Create Optimal Environments: Physical, Social, Mental, Spiritual, Cultural That Move Us Towards Our Collective & Personal Goals
- Ideas For Agile Team That Has “Plateaued”
- Improving Forecasting & Predictability
- Introducing Kaizen/Lean to the Organization: Correcting False Ideas, What Works & Doesn’t
- Is Stack Ranking (in)Compatible w/Agile Cooperation? (stack ranking=ranking emplyees and firing the bottom 20% yearly)
- “Jeez, I Don’t Know”: Supporting & Understanding Emotion in Lean/Agile/Lean Startup etc.Transitions
- Kanban at Home: Chores & More
- Kanban Simulation Game for Ops
- Lean Contracts: Client Services, Selling Incremental Work, Dealing w/Uncertainty, Fear, & Trust
- Lean For Non-Profits
- Lean Me Alone: The Myth that Everyone is a Leader in Lean/Agile
- Lean Meeting on Lean Startups
- Making Change Happen When There is Resistance
- Managing Technical Teams w/o Managers
- Managing Work That Spans Multiple Teams
- Metaphor to Convince People To Work Differently (& Wild Team Dynamics)
- Maslow EVERYWHERE: How to Apply it on All Levels to Transform Your Company
- Personal Kaizen
- Personal Kanban Applied
- Project Management in the Wild
- Resilience w/Kanban
- Seeds for Kaizen: What is Minimum Needed to get Started w/Lean/Agile/Kanban/Scrum
- So How Do YOU Do Agile in a Distributed Environment?
- Thinking Different: How to Communicate When People Think Differently
- Unstructured Walking in Nature
- Visual Systems for Requirements Development
- Web Apps & Mobile Platform Proliferation, Team Dynamics, Language Choices
- Who is Deming? What Can I Learn From Him?
- Why Lean Coffee Is Awesome
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