Kaizen is the unstated, ever-present cornerstone of Agile Development, but it's if often seen as distant and abstract thing rather than one of the tangible Agile practices, like standups, testing, or estimation. Seen as a "soft skill", Kaizen is in fact it's the hard science, the central motivator, the justification, and the traffic cop of other Agile practices. This presentation delivers Kaizen without the typical esoteric language, and re-casts it as the tangible, central aspect of Agile Development that all other practices pivot around. It presents the tools and techniques of Kaizen that you can put to work in your team right now in the pursuit of ever higher levels of performance.