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About Kerika’s use by Federal, State, Local agencies.

Beth Albertson’s presentation on using Kerika at DSHS

December 18, 2014Agile & Scrum, GovernmentGovernment, Our Users, ScrumKerika

Beth Albertson, Solutions Architect at Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services, gave a presentation on November 18, 2014, at the Project Management Institute’s Olympia Chapter.

Beth talked about her own background in project management — how she started off as a chemist and researcher, and gradually found her way into project management and IT over the years — and how she used Kerika to transition from a classic “Waterfall” style of project management to something more Agile.

The presentation was very well received, and she has graciously agreed to share it with everyone 🙂

Kerika at the PMI Olympia Chapter

November 19, 2014Agile & Scrum, Government, Team Collaboration, TechnologyGovernment, Our Users, ScrumKerika

Arun Kumar, CEO of Kerika, and Beth Albertson, Solution Architect at Washington State’s Dept of Social and Health Services, gave a joint presentation at the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s Olympia chapter yesterday.

Beth talked about her experience in moving away from Microsoft Project to online task boards, and Arun talked about the general use of online task boards for distributed teams, Lean teams, and Agile teams, with a special focus on the public sector.

It was a great evening, with dinner served and some great Q&A afterwards!

Too bad we forgot to take pictures 🙁

A great response at the Lean Transformation Conference

October 31, 2014Agile & Scrum, Government, Kanban & Lean, Kerika, Team CollaborationGovernment, Kanban, Kerika, Scrum, TeamsKerika

Our presentation on Distributed Lean & Agile Teams in the Public Sector at the Lean Transformation Conference last week was very well received: the presentation was given on both days of the conference, and attendees were polled by the conference organizers on whether they liked the talks, or not.

Session 1 (Tuesday): 100% of the attendees who provided feedback gave Arun‘s talk a thumbs-up.
Session 2 (Wednesday): 96% of attendees who provided feedback gave Arun’s talk a thumbs-up!

Arun at Lean Transformation Conference 2014

The Results Washington folks have produced a short video featuring attendees at the conference — we recognize a user or two 🙂

When Worlds Collide: Distributed Lean and Agile Teams in the Public Sector

October 28, 2014Agile & Scrum, Kanban & Lean, Kerika, Team Collaboration, TechnologyGovernment, Kanban, Kerika, Our Users, Scrum, TeamsKerika

We were thrilled to be part of the Lean Transformation Conference organized by Results Washington week at the Tacoma Convention Center. Over 2,700 people attended — a sellout crowd!

Arun Kumar, founder & CEO of Kerika, gave a presentation on both days on Distributed Lean and Agile Teams in the Public Sector, drawing upon lessons learned, case studies and best practices from multiple state agencies and private sector firms.

Here’s the presentation:

Revisiting the (deserted) Post-It Palace

October 17, 2014Agile & Scrum, Government, Kanban & Lean, Team Collaboration, Technology, UsabilityGovernment, Kanban, Kerika, Task Board, Usability, WorkflowKerika

A couple of weeks ago we visited a UX team at the Washington State Department of Licensing, and took a photo of the “Post-It Palace” they had built within their cubicles:

2 weeks later, this is what we saw:

Everything is now inside a set of Kanban Boards powered by Kerika+Box!

Lunch & Learn Agile, for State Government Employees

October 5, 2014Agile & Scrum, Kanban & Lean, Kerika, Team Collaboration, TechnologyGovernment, Kanban, Scrum, TeamsKerika

Cayzen Technologies organized a Lunch & Learn Agile event at the Harbor House at Percival Landing in Olympia, Washington, featuring Arun Kumar, CEO of Kerika.

Arun’s topic was Implementing Lean across Distributed Teams, and we would like to specially thank Mayra Pena from Cayzen who organized the event:

The event was attended by folks from Washington State’s Employment Security Department and Department of Health, among others, and there was a lively discussion.

Here are the slides from that presentation:

If you would like to see the sample Kerika board that featured in the demo, go to https://kerika.com/m/H51M

Thanks for attending!

The Post-It Palace at Washington State’s Department of Licensing

October 3, 2014Agile & Scrum, Government, Kanban & Lean, Team CollaborationGovernment, Kanban, Our Users, Scrum, Usability, WorkflowKerika

Here are some folks who have really embraced sticky notes and Kanban…

(With Cullen Hower from cloudPWR)

Let’s see if we can’t improve on this 🙂

A case study in transforming a Government Agency

July 9, 2014Agile & Scrum, Government, Kanban & Lean, Team Collaboration, TechnologyGovernment, Kanban, Scrum, Task Board, TeamsKerika

Dan Genz from the Washington State Auditor’s Office gave a presentation at the 2014 IPMA Forum describing how the state agency is adopting Lean principles, while serving hundreds of state, county and local municipalities with a distributed team of auditors and analysts spread out across the state:

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