Software development, or any delivery that depends on knowledge work. Forty years of building and leading it, now shared through consulting, speaking, and training.
Todd Little
Kanban University Distinguished Fellow and Accredited Kanban Trainer. Former Chairman at Kanban University, VP of Product Development at IHS, and Director of Software and Technology at Landmark Graphics. Co-author of Stand Back and Deliver.
Value is delivered by people, process, and technology working together, on a foundation of leadership, and always grounded in the reality of your customers, market, and constraints. When delivery struggles, the cause usually sits in one of these layers, and often in how they fit together.
Transformations that start with fanfare often end in fatigue. I help leaders see the organization as a system, make sound decisions under uncertainty, and lead change in small evolutionary steps that build on what already works.
A strategy that works like a bucket rather than a filter leaves everything a priority. I help organizations decide where to differentiate and where good enough is good enough, and to weigh the real economics of delay, quality, and value.
Resistance is always present, and wishing it away doesn't work. I help leaders build trust and ownership, work with disagreement rather than suppress it, and replace people practices that quietly undermine teams.
Most delays come from how work flows, not how hard people work. Using Kanban, flow metrics, and data-driven forecasting, I help teams see their work, reduce delay, and make commitments they can keep, whatever process they use today.
Technical practices, test strategy, global delivery, and now AI can accelerate the flow of value, or just generate more work in progress. I help organizations put technology to work in service of flow and quality.
The model draws together ideas and practices I've used and taught for decades. Follow any of them to a related talk or article.
Hands-on help when delivery is unpredictable, an agile effort has stalled, or strategy isn't reaching the teams. We start with what you do now and improve from there.
See how I helpKeynotes, conference talks, and workshops on flow, evolutionary change, leadership, and decision making under uncertainty.
See talks and videosAccredited Kanban University classes and Leading in Technology Organizations, delivered in-house or at your event.
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Todd Little is a Kanban University Distinguished Fellow and an Accredited Kanban Trainer, and was previously Chairman at Kanban University. He has held executive roles as Vice President of Product Development for IHS, and Director of Software and Technology for Landmark Graphics, a division of Halliburton. He has been developing or leading the development of software for over 40 years.
For the past 20+ years, Todd has been a frequent presenter at Agile and Software conferences around the globe. He is a founding member and past President of the Agile Leadership Network. He has served on the Board of Directors of both the Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network, and was a co-founder and Conference chair for several of the Agile20XX conferences.
Todd is a co-author of the book “Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility,” Addison Wesley.
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