(Note: If you have been influenced by Jabe’s work, please consider supporting him here.) We at TLC / TLCLabs are bursting with pride that our own Jabe Bloom has been selected as one of six finalists for the Brickell Key Award, which highlights excellence in the Lean Kanban community. Past award winners include Jim Benson, Allison Vale, Russell Healy, Arne Roock, Richard Hensley, and David Joyce. It’s a testimony to the growing depth of this community that the selection committee has so many excellent finalists this year. We at TLC have learned a lot, in particular, from Pawel Brodzinski, Hakan Forss, and Yuval Yeret. We don’t envy the selection committee’s task in selecting only 2 winners from this field. TLC wishes each of the finalists the best of luck. We are very proud of the work that Jabe has been recognized for within the community and are honored to count him as a colleague and peer. At TLC, he has helped guide us in what is probably one of the most substantive and holistic attempts to create a truly lean organization. With his work on ambiguity, deadlines, and failing well, Jabe is helping to create new knowledge that is influencing both theorists and practitioners. Jabe’s work on the tlclabs.co site has created a broad platform that publicizes TLC’s efforts to become a world class lean software systems company. We believe that TLC offers a transparent example of the challenges and rewards of a company that embraces kanban, lean, cognitive complexity, and systems thinking. It is our hope that this example will encourage more companies to make similar efforts. Jabe was awarded the LESS 2011 award for Lean Product Development for his talk on Alternative Visualization. In 2012 he hosted LSS treasurer Richard Turner at The Library Corporation to discuss lean software development in large systems. Jabe was accepted and spoke at all three LKU conferences in Europe during 2012, developing three separate presentations, one for each conference: LKFR Paris “Failing Well”, LKCE Vienna “In Defense of Ambiguity”, LKNL “Beyond Deadlines”. He also was accepted and presented at Agile SF 2012 on lean and kanban. Jabe has also helped build important bridges between the Lean Startup and lean software communities. He has spoken about lean kanban concepts in front of more than 1000 entrepreneurs at Lean Startup Machine weekend competitions in the US and Europe. He has lectured as a practicing consultant inside such organizations as The Motley Fool and the US Postal Service. Jabe has gone beyond the software world and introduced entirely new audiences to lean and kanban, speaking to some of the largest libraries in the world about lean and complexity. In short, Jabe’s contributions to this community have been broad and deep, and we think Brickell Key would be a great way for his work to be recognized. If you are one of the scores of people in this community who we’ve heard complain that Jabe has “melted their minds,” we’d strongly encourage you to consider writing to the selection committee in support of his selection.
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