From delivery challenges to operational or cultural transformation, organizational roadblocks can be found everywhere. Knowing how you generate value is essential, but finding what’s preventing delivery is key to enabling lasting improvements and greater efficiency. In this line of thought, constraints, and bottlenecks are the main limiting factors of every process. Having said that, reading […]
Kanban started as a scheduling system developed by Taiichi Ohno that revolutionized the automotive industry and was the foundation of the Toyota Production System. The term Kanban nowadays refers to the Kanban method for knowledge work application, which gained traction at the beginning of the 21st century. The approach gained massive popularity across the software sector, […]
“Value is only valuable if someone values your value.” As business agility expert Nigel Thurlow has simply put it, identifying value through your customers’ perspective is critical to success. Thus, Lean is developed to deliver unquestionable value to the customer at the right time. To help you with that, the methodology focuses on identifying value-adding […]
How do you measure success at your company? Based on what you do, there might be a lot of different factors that define success for your company. But I want to tell you one of the ways we measure success in Kanbanize. It’s simple: we celebrate success when our customers succeed through innovation. At the […]
Today, 77% of Agilists use Kanban boards. I’ll say it again. Seventy-seven percent of those who conduct Agile projects use a Kanban board, according to the most authoritative study on Agile. This staggering percentage speaks for itself – followers of Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and any other Agile method or framework will vouch for the benefits […]
Gone are the days of maximum capacity utilization as a way to get more efficient and improve your team’s performance. With Agile transformations on the rise, not just in tech but in engineering, banking, pharma, and other fields, one of the dilemmas that leaders face is whether to turn their focus on flow or iterations […]
It comes as no surprise that as we live in the digital era, more and more companies are looking to initiate digital transformation programs. In fact, studies show that by 2026 digital transformation spending is projected to reach 3.4 trillion dollars. But there is one recent trend which we believe grabs the attention of many, […]
If you’re reading this article, Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is probably familiar to you. If you’re having success with OKR, congratulations! I would love to hear about your learnings. On the other hand, if you still need to realize the benefits promised by OKR or OKR is a frustrating initiative for your organization, I […]
Would you consider customer experience the most important indicator of strategic performance for your organization? More than 45% of organizations do. Indeed, a healthy relationship with your customers is among the critical traits of successful, growing, and sustainable businesses. Understanding, tracking, and improving your workflow efficiency is important to ensure your customers are satisfied with […]
The Аgile world has spent the last 20 years evangelizing self-organizing teams. Yet, just because people learn that self-organizing is the way of Agile teams does not mean it happens. Slowly, little by little, the message has been getting through, and teams have been getting more autonomous. Of course, that can be quite frustrating if […]