Some of these are publications, and some are white papers or blog posts.

Agile, Queueing Theory, Lean, and How They Are Related

• When Agile Gets Physical: How to Use Agile Principles to Accelerate Hardware Development.  With Katherine Radeka.  Chesapeake Press, 2022.
• What is Queueing Theory and Why Should I Care? 2020.
• A Short History of Queueing Theory. 2020.
• What Makes Agile Software Development Work. 2020.
• Velocity – A Squishy Measure. Online article. June 2017.
• Cadence: Increase Efficiency with a Rhythm.  Online article How cadence can speed up your projects and simplify your life. 2016.
• Cadence in Agile Projects: Sprint Length, Integration Frequency, and Other Matters of Rhythm. What Lean can tell us about ideal sprint length.  Rose City SPIN March 2013.
• Cadence: The Trade-off Between Holding Cost and Transaction Cost.
  This white paper shows you how to calculate the best cadence for a recurring activity. If you want to see the actual math behind the rules-of-thumb for cadence, this is the paper to read.
• Agile for Large Systems. Lean explains why agile works – and how agile can be adapted to large multi-team projects.
• Lean vs Agile: Friend or Foe?. Lightning Talk at PNSQC Meetup April 2014.
• Lean in The Test Lab.  Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2013.
• Introducing Fast Flexible Flow at HP.  Lean Product and Process Development Exchange 2012.
• Kanban: What is It and Why Should I Care?. With Landon Reese. Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2011.
• Lean System Integration at HP.  Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2010.
• Evolution of Software Lifecycles.  Panel on Evolutionary Delivery.  Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2005.

Quality and Throughput Improvement Techniques

• Causal Map Fishbone Diagrams – A Better Way to Find Root Causes.  Online article November 2020.
• The Improvement Kata: Lean Meets Annual Planning.  Invited Speaker Talk at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. October 2015. 
• The One-Hour Retrospective.  Process improvement for sprints and other short cycles. 2013.
• Five Whys Cause and Effect Analysis: Finding a Solution Quickly. 2013.

Visual Planning Boards and Kanban Boards

• Simplify Your Management with Visual Planning Boards. A Visual Planning Board can help your small business, nonprofit, or just you manage your work more easily.
• Visualizing Workflow in Your Organization.  A Planning Board can help you get work done faster.
• Visual Planning Boards for Small Groups.  Techniques for using Visual Planning Boards with a work team or small group.
• More Techniques for Visual Planning Boards.   Use your Planning Board to balance workload across your staff.
• Kanban and Visual Planning Boards. Improve capacity of a small team.
• Planning Boards for Rapidly Changing Work. Using a Visual Planning Board to cope with rapidly changing work during an eldercare crisis.

 Improvement Kata

• The Improvement Kata: Lean Meets Annual Planning.  Invited Speaker Talk at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. October 2015. 
• “Success Cards – Making Improvements Visible”: An Improvement Kata topic.