Bøger af David J Anderson

Kanban is a method of organizing and managing professional services work. It uses Lean concepts such as limiting work in progress to improve results. A Kanban system is a means of balancing the demand for work to be done with the available capacity to start new work.This book provides a distillation of Kanban: the "essence" of what it is and how it can be used. This brief overview introduces all the principal concepts and guidelines in Kanban and points you to where you can find out more. Essential Kanban Condensed is a great resource to get started or continue exploring ideas for evolutionary change and improvement in business agility.

Descubriendo Kanban es el primero de una serie de cuatro volúmenes titulada Mejor con Kanban, que ofrece una cobertura completa del Método Kanban y su implementación a gran escala en empresas - implementaciones que abarcan la totalidad de las empresas modernas.Este primer volumen cuenta la historia del origen de Kanban, la historia de cómo los conceptos de las industrias de bienes físicos fueron adaptados y adoptados para el trabajo intelectual moderno del siglo XXI, ilustrando con tempranas historias de éxito de Microsoft y otras dos empresas de tecnología moderna con sede en Seattle y San Francisco. Los conceptos aquí introducidos sirven de base para toda la serie y el Método completo. Se trata de un libro de lectura obligada para cualquiera que tenga la tarea de dirigir y gestionar empresas modernas en las que los trabajadores piensan para ganarse la vida, trabajando con el cerebro mucho más que con las manos.

Descubriendo Kanban es el primero de una serie de cuatro volúmenes titulada Mejor con Kanban, que ofrece una cobertura completa del Método Kanban y su implementación a gran escala en empresas - implementaciones que abarcan la totalidad de las empresas modernas.Este primer volumen cuenta la historia del origen de Kanban, la historia de cómo los conceptos de las industrias de bienes físicos fueron adaptados y adoptados para el trabajo intelectual moderno del siglo XXI, ilustrando con tempranas historias de éxito de Microsoft y otras dos empresas de tecnología moderna con sede en Seattle y San Francisco. Los conceptos aquí introducidos sirven de base para toda la serie y el Método completo. Se trata de un libro de lectura obligada para cualquiera que tenga la tarea de dirigir y gestionar empresas modernas en las que los trabajadores piensan para ganarse la vida, trabajando con el cerebro mucho más que con las manos.

"When your dog growls and barks, you might assume that he's angry. But how do you know? You can't very well ask him. Even if you could, it's not at all clear that animals even have emotions like humans do. We still know very little about what emotions are and how they drive behavior. In fact, scientists haven't even been able to reach a consensus on how to study them. In The Nature of the Beast, neuroscientist David Anderson argues that the only way to solve this problem is to totally rethink our approach. One of the main sources of confusion is that we often fail to differentiate between feelings and emotions. Feelings are the subjective experiences of emotion, but they are not actually emotions. Anderson argues that emotions are internal states of the brain, similar to the state of being tired or thirsty, which you can observe in a brain's neural activity. They are like programs that our brain runs to address specific needs. Feelings are just one of many ways your brain tries to address a need. This neuroscientific approach offers us a much more precise and objective way of understanding emotions than older methods like self-report. And because it doesn't rely on language, you don't actually have to ask a dog if he's angry to find out. Anderson has been able to get some of the first reliable evidence about whether animals experience emotions like humans (spoiler alert: they do), and he is using those results to learn new things about how emotions drive our own actions. The Nature of the Beast takes readers into Anderson's groundbreaking studies of animal aggression and explores provocative new insights into how we choose between fight or flight responses, why isolation makes us more aggressive and social circles make us more peaceful, why sex and violence often bleed into one another, and whether there is in fact a connection between aggression and mental illness. The Nature of the Beast is How Emotions Are Made meets Mama's Last Hug: an exciting new framework for understanding how the brain regulates emotions, and why we have them at all"--

The Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)l is a new, powerful tool for coaches and consultants advising medium and large enterprises on transformation and improvement using the Kanban Method. From the author of the best-selling Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, David J. Anderson, together with Teodora Bozheva, this book maps out seven levels of organizational maturity against the six general practices of Kanban to ensure appropriate application of Kanban practices and successful adoption of the approach. The KMM describes a roadmap and concrete actions that enable organizations to achieve fitness-for-purpose and exceptional business agility.This book is for consultants, coaches, corporate change agents, and managers who must lead medium- and large-scale enterprises through a transition to improve their operations and service delivery. This book is for businesses that aspire to superior business agility, to deliver fit-for-purpose products and services, to delight customers, and to provide the security of long-term survival associated with mature businesses that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.The KMM is designed to eliminate the two most common failure modes in the adoption of Kanban: overreaching, causing an aborted start; false summit plateaus and failure to realize full benefit. KMM provides advisors with the knowledge to create just enough positive stress to provoke improvement without overdoing it and causing a regression in corporate performance.This book covers: Understanding the seven Kanban maturity levels Benefits of the KMM How the KMM drives capability and maturity to enable fitness-for-purpose and business agility The KMM Architecture and in-depth understanding of the model Maps 132 specific practices against the six general practices of the Kanban Method and seven maturity levels, describing the intent, value, and expected outcomes from each practice. KMM-specific practices codify more than ten years of Kanban implementations in firms from small to extremely large, across five continents and many industries. KMM documents the body of knowledge that coaches and organizations need to develop sustainable change, build a culture of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome. Provides a comprehensive set of example kanban boards suitable for the whole range of organizational maturity levels The comprehensive set of kanban board designs provide ideas for visualizing work items, workflows of different types and complexity, risks, classes of services, shared resources, and other aspects of complex interdependent enterprise services. Defines in detail what practices and metrics to use-and how-for effective workflow management. Defines the specific Kanban practices that enable delivering high quality products and services, and optimizing economic results. Describes the integration of KMM with existing models and methods, in particular Lean/TPS, Real World Risk Model (by Nassim Nichoals Taleb), CMMI, and Mission Command/Auftragstaktik. Maps twenty cultural values to the seven maturity levels, enabling leadership guidance and coaching for a stronger, more effective corporate culture. Includes vital coaching tips that facilitate the correct implementation of specific practices. The KMM will help you avoid the two most typical failure modes in Kanban implementations: overreaching, causing an aborted start; false summit plateaus and failure to realize full benefit. Use the model to understand the current situation of your organization and define appropriate actions that will drive it to the desired state.