- Agicon - One Does Not Simply Improves without Visualisation I gave a talk at the Agicon 2016 conference about Kanban, focusing mostly on visualisation and how it can help to improve different kind of organisations from startups to large enterprises. You can find the slides here.
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- Ericsson Hungary MMGW - Devops and AWS Introduction I gave an introductional and motivational talk about devops and AWS to folks at Ericsson Hungary MMGW divison..
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- Debrecen Tech and Startup Meetup - What Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Have Ever Done for Us? I gave my last talk at the Debrecen Tech and Startup Meetup for a local community about how Scrum, Kanban, and Lean can help small or startup companies achieve their success. Scrum, Kanban, and Lean are very good at improving processes, which we need for fast delivery, and Agile/Lean UX to find the right product to deliver, so I put emphasis on these parts.
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- Agile, Lean and UX is Coming This time I was talking about the basics of Agile and Lean methodologies and how to apply the UX principles in them. Here are the slides.
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- Philosophies of Building the Workplace I gave my second talk at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics to psychology students about the philosophies we use to build and improve a workplace. I covered a wide range of topics (Taylor, Kanban, staff liquidity, cynefin, etc.) and promised the students to share some references and further reading materials.
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- Teaser Talk about Development at the University I've recently given a teaser talk about software development at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The audience was great and thank you for coming folks, I really appreciate it!I wasn't talking much about programming, because nowadays a programmer or software developer is expected to know and do testing, and keep in mind two things: quality and user satisfaction.
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- London Lean Kanban Day 2014 - The Road to a Fairly Predictable System I see agile software development methodologies (Scrum and XP) and modern management methods (Kanban) as tools for predictability. The development organisation would like to know what is coming and whether it will be the right thing to do. On the other side, the management would like to know when the new features can hit the market.
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- Agile Adria Croatia 2014 - The Road to a Fairly Predictable System I see agile software development methodologies (Scrum and XP) and modern management methods (Kanban) as tools for predictability. The development organisation would like to know what is coming and whether it will be the right thing to do. On the other side, the management would like to know when the new features can hit the market.
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- OOP 2014 - Social Sciences Make a Difference Being aware of the state of our minds and our environment is very important not only for Agile teams, but for any team. Let's say that you have made up your mind about what you are going to do and are about to execute your plan. There may be several courses of action for you to take at this point, and in my experience the best way is to examine the situation, look for social science studies that match the problem at hand, pick one, and carefully apply its recommendations.
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- Lean Kanban UK 2013 - I Broke the WIP Limit Twice, and I'm Still on the Team Starting over requires us to do at least two things; re-learn the principles and practices, and look for examples on how others recovered. I believe that understanding the pull system, the WIP limits, and the difference between manufacturing and software development will give us enough to recover faster from failures and accelerate the learning process.
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- I broke the WIP limit TWICE, still on the team - slides I've finally uploaded the slides for my I broke the WIP limit TWICE, still on the team talk. I gave this talk at Lean Kanban France and at Make Better Decisions with Modern Management Methods (a.k.a. Lean Kanban the Netherlands 2013), and will give it at the same branded conference in London in a week (a.
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- Lean Kanban Netherlands 2013 - I Broke the WIP Limit Twice, and I'm Still on the Team Starting over requires us to do at least two things; re-learn the principles and practices, and look for examples on how others recovered. I believe that understanding the pull system, the WIP limits, and the difference between manufacturing and software development will give us enough to recover faster from failures and accelerate the learning process.
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- Lean Kanban France 2013 - I Broke the WIP Limit Twice, and I'm Still on the Team Starting over requires us to do at least two things; re-learn the principles and practices, and look for examples on how others recovered. I believe that understanding the pull system, the WIP limits, and the difference between manufacturing and software development will give us enough to recover faster from failures and accelerate the learning process.
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- Agile Cambridge 2012 - How to Narrow Down What to Test Nowadays testing, especially writing automatic test cases, costs a lot. This looks like an extra expense in short time, but saves a lot of trouble in the long run. However, not every organisation can afford to spend expensive coding time on testing that considered as no real value to the customer.
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- Lean Agile Scotland 2013 - Bermuda Triangle of Transformations This talk will explain the three vertices - for example, why an organisation needs a critical mass and proper environment to expand the effect of an idea -, and how they are related to each other - for example, how the setup of a committee can create a cargo cult inside an organisation, which eventually provides false positive results.
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- Public Speaking Events in Autumn I'm going to have a busy Autumn because I'm going to speak at four different conferences. The Autumn tour will start in Edinburgh with Lean Agile Scotland 2013 that I'm very much excited about. It was great last year, and based on the tweets it is going to be even greater this year.
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- If You Are a Public Speaker, You Need a Twitter Account If you are a public speaker, you need a twitter account. Why? First, because twitter is the best way to get instant feedback on your talk. Second, it is the best way to stay in touch with your audience. Of course there are different ways to get other kinds of feedback, such as the feedback/happiness doors, or questionnaires at the end of the conferences, but they tell you different things.
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- Without You I Couldn't Attend KLRAT2013 The Kanban Leadership Retreat is one of the highly valued Kanban events in the year, and thanks to a couple of great folks (see below) I can attend this year. Paul Klipp started a scholarship fund in April for supporting those practicitoners who cannot afford to be there.
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- Dare 2013 - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- XP 2013 - How to Narrow Down What to Test Nowadays testing legacy code, especially writing automatic test cases costs a lot. This looks like an extra expense in the short run, but saves a lot of trouble in the long run. However, not every organisation can afford to spend expensive coding time on testing that is considered having as no real value to the customer.
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- Public Speaking Events in Summer I'm going to speak at two conferences this Summer.
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- ACE! 2013 - Social Sciences Make a Difference The pure intention of this talk is to introduce interesting phenomena and fascinating experiments from the social sciences to the audience. These experiments have been around for a while, but we rarely apply their findings in our life. The talk won't just explain a phenomenon like the Learned Helplessness or an experiment like the Hawthorne experiment, but will show how to use its findings for your benefit.
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- ACCU 2013 - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- ACCU 2013 - How to Narrow Down What to Test Nowadays testing, especially writing automatic test cases, costs a lot. This looks like an extra expense in short time, but saves a lot of trouble in the long run. However, not every organisation can afford to spend expensive coding time on testing that considered as no real value to the customer.
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- Public Speaking Events in Spring I'm going to speak at two conferences this spring.
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- Lean Kanban France 2012 - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- ALE 2012 - Groundhog Day of a Team Leader Lean thinking and Kanban usually approach an organisation from the executive or management level, but the people who are working in development and testing see things a bit differently. It takes a long journey until a developer feels the weight of an service level agreement, or understands the different prioritization methods.
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- Agile Cambridge 2012 - Achieving Maintenance Stabilisation with Agile, Kanban and Lean Thinking Nowadays, maintenance is the most challenging part of a software project life cycle. It is not only very unpredictable, but it gives a hard time to every software professional who got used to working mostly in development, because it requires a different kind of mindset and attitude.
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- Lean Agile Scotland 2012 - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- Budapest Kanban Meetup - Achieving Maintenance Stabilisation with Agile, Kanban and Lean Thinking Nowadays, maintenance is the most challenging part of a software project life cycle. It is not only very unpredictable, but it gives a hard time to every software professional who got used to working mostly in development, because it requires a different kind of mindset and attitude.
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- Public Speaking Events in Autumn This autumn will be a bit busy for me. I'm going to talk at four different conferences.
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- The Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group is One Year Old It is always a great thing to meet the local Lean and Kanban community in Budapest, and this latest event was even more special, because our local group just became one year old. Happy Birthday!After my talk about Agile and Lean in software maintenance environment, we had a delicious cake and a great discussion about how to adapt certain Agile and Lean principles in maintenance projects and we also shared several practical ideas.
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- Ericsson Finland 2012 - The Power of an Idea This lightning talk is about ideas, how to approach and how to implement them..
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- Visit at Targu Mures A couple of weeks ago, I was told that a new Agile meetup group was about to be started in Targu Mures - even the local newspaper wrote about it - and the organizers wanted me to give a special talk about the Agile way of working. It was a great opportunity for me to visit Transylvania again and meet the forming community there.
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- Evoline Romania - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- Targu Mures Agile Meetup - Behind the Curtain: They Agile/Lean Way of Working Introduction to Agile software development for a forming community. Targu Mures - Behind the Curtain.
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- Ericsson Finland - Motivational Talk about Maintenance Show how can maintainance work fun in an organisation that has to deal with a lot of work..
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- ACCU 2012 The last weeks were a bit busy and I didn't have the chance to share my slides from ACCU2012, but now I have some time, so here they are.
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- ACCU 2012 - Groundhog Day of a Team Leader Lean thinking and Kanban usually approach an organisation from the executive or management level, but the people who are working in development and testing see things a bit differently. It takes a long journey until a developer feels the weight of an service level agreement, or understands the different prioritisation methods.
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- Ericsson Global Agile Webinar - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice .
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- Software Passion Summit 2012 Last Monday and Tuesday was really important to me, because I gave my first talks in front of an international audience. I was at the Software Passion Summit 2012 conference in Göteborg, Sweden where I was talking about how to measure and manage software development projects and how to make improvement steps in software maintenance projects.
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- Software Passion Summit 2012 - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- Software Passion Summit 2012 - Achieving Maintenance Stabilisation with Agile, Kanban and Lean Thinking Nowadays, maintenance is the most challenging part of a software project life cycle. It is not only very unpredictable, but it gives a hard time to every software professional who got used to working mostly in development, because it requires a different kind of mindset and attitude.
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- Software Passion Summit 2012, 10% Discount for Followers I'm going to talk at Software Passion Summit 2012 about Measuring and Managing Flow in practice and Achieving Maintenance Stabilisation with Agile, Kanban and Lean Thinking. I've just received a mail from the event organizer, and the good news is that the blog followers of the speakers who plan to attend the conference can get a 10 percent discount from the current price.
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- Public Speaking at SPS 2012 and ACCU 2012 I'm happy to announce that the program groups of Software Passion Summit 2012 and ACCU 2012 accepted my proposals and I'm going to speak at those conferences. I don't know all the details at the moment, but the schedule of ACCU 2012 is already out and you can find my slot on Thursday 14:45 about team leadership.
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- Speaking at ITREND 2011 I was invited to a local conference called ITREND 2011, where I talked about how to use customer diversity analysis, Kanban and eXtreme Programming in order to have less unexpected business changes in one's organisation. I was really looking forward to this event because of two reasons: first, it was held in my hometown Miskolc, Hungary at the University where I studied and work, and second, I finally saw a chance to tell students about recent software development methods, because I knew that this topic wasn't covered in their curriculum.
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- IT REND 2011 - Don't Fear Change Let Change Fear You How agile and kanban is used at a real company using a real product as example. Don't Fear Change, Let Change Fear You from Zsolt Fabok.
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- Speaking at Ericsson Hungary It may sound strange at first, but I was ask by my former employer Ericsson Hungary to give an invited talk. There were two sessions.
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- Ericsson Hungary - The Difficult Life of a Team Leader Lean thinking and Kanban usually approach an organisation from the executive or management level, but the people who are working in development and testing see things a bit differently. It takes a long journey until a developer feels the weight of an service level agreement, or understands the different prioritisation methods.
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- Ericsson Hungary - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- Visit at Cluj Napoca My old friend Victor invited me to Cluj Napoca, Romania to talk about software development in practice. There were three talks in the morning at his company evoline and a fourth talk late afternoon at the local meetup group. We started the day with an introduction to Kanban, because the audience knew about Agile, but Kanban was something new, and additionally we needed it for the maintenance-related presentation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok After a short break we continued with a longer talk about maintenance and how to use Agile, Lean, Kanban and leadership techniques in order to stabilise a maintenance situation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok The last presentation was about how to use Agile techniques without saying Agile: Agile in Stealth Mode from Zsolt Fabok My talk at the meetup became a bit longer than I expected, but we had - at least I felt like that - a great discussion how the software development process evolved at Digital Natives - my current company - and, uniquely, we talked about what we were doing right and where we failed: Evolution of the Software Development Process at Digital Natives from Zsolt Fabok I promised a list of books worth reading.
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- Evoline Romania - Maintenance Stabilisation Workshop Nowadays, maintenance is the most challenging part of a software project life cycle. It is not only very unpredictable, but it gives a hard time to every software professional who got used to working mostly in development, because it requires a different kind of mindset and attitude.
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- Evoline Romania - Kanban Basics for Beginner The Kanban method and Kanban systems are getting more and more popular among software development organisations. Kanban is a very simple methodology which can be used with every software development process like Scrum, DSDM, Crystal, Waterfall and company specific-processes.
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- The Cluj Napoca Agile Meetup - Evolution of the Software Development Process at Digital Natives I've spent the last five months at Digital Natives introducing the Kanban method and Lean thinking into our daily work. I'm going to show the different steps of evolution of our way working through the states of our main visual indicator.
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- Evoline Romania - Agile in Stealth Mode Although Agile software development is getting more and more popular, only a few organisations decide to do the full Agile transition. The reasons behind it may vary between organisations, but usually it is because of the costs, or the customer does not really care how the software is developed, or not everybody from the organisation wants to do it and the list goes on.
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- Brown Bag Lunch Talk: Measure and Manage Flow This Tuesday, I had my first brown bag lunch talk at prezi, where I talked about measuring and managing the flow. Here are my slides.
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- Prezi - Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.
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- Meetup: Kanban in 5 Minutes Yesterday evening I gave a 5 minute long lightning talk at Bp New Tech Meetup about Kanban focusing on the measure and manage flow principle. Here are my slides.
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- Budapest New Technology Meetup - Kanban in 5 Minutes Kanban in 5 minutes. Kanban in 5 minutes from Zsolt Fabok.
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- Meetup: Kanban Basics for Beginners Next week, Yuval Yeret will present at the first main event of the Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group. He is going to speak about a bit more advanced topic - scalling Kanban -, so I thought it would helpful to the community to keep an introduction for those, who aren't that familiar with Kanban.
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- Budapest Kanban Meetup - Kanban Basics for Beginners Kanban basics for beginners. Kanban Basics for Beginners from Zsolt Fabok.
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