What is the optimal path to be more productive and to increase profits? This is one of the toughest questions business leaders have always been facing. In this day and age, market competitiveness makes it even more challenging to achieve such goals. What is the right answer? Ingenuity, state-of-the-art service, new management ways, or shift […]
Our founders started Kanbanize with the mission to discover new management ways and share that knowledge through amazingly powerful tools. It is easier said than done. So how do we do it? It is easy. We know there is always a better way of doing things, which led us to where we are today. This is why […]
At Kanbanize, we’ve always said that Kanban is much more than “sticky notes on a wall”. That’s why our goal has always been to build a product that’s not just the next tool for moving cards from left to right on a whiteboard. We aim to enable true agility in companies by helping them: Optimize workflows and deliver faster Gain […]
Let’s get one thing straight from the start: there’s no estimation in Kanban. Today, we share our perspective and experience on why estimation is not sufficient in today’s volatile world of project management and how we handle it in Kanban. Estimating vs. Forecasting Estimation is a subjective process for finding estimates such as “what would be the duration […]
“What is the progress on…?” I am sure you will agree that’s one of the most asked questions by customers or other relevant stakeholders when you are working on a product or service. But how can you measure the progress of something if you don’t know where it ends? It’s simple… you can’t. The same thing applies to […]
It’s no secret that having a good strategy is of vital importance in the business world. From developing the right product to positioning it on the market, it all comes down to strategy. And yet, when implementing Kanban (or Lean/Agile for that matter), we still see many companies that approach it as a one-time endeavor. […]
In Kanbanize, we’re die-hard fans of efficiency and continuous improvement. And this doesn’t necessarily mean implementing Agile practices by the book. In our experience, we’ve seen companies that try so hard to embrace all of the “best Agile practices” on their transformation journey but still lack something to get the desirable results. I am sure […]
Are you always on the lookout for new ways to manage projects effectively and strengthen your business processes? If you are among those brave leaders who are always chasing process improvement, we’re here to help! Find out what Lean process improvement is, the benefits it brings across industries, and how to achieve it in your […]
It’s not a lie that here at Kanbanize, we are big fans of business agility. Every day, we read, write, research, and implement our new findings on Agile in our organization. We also give our best in our day-to-day work to practice what we preach. However, blindly preaching that a coin is one-sided, doesn’t wipe out the existence […]
Kanban started as a scheduling system developed by Taiichi Ohno that revolutionized the automotive industry and was the foundation of the Toyota production system. Later, David Anderson defined Kanban for knowledge work application, and it gained massive popularity across the software sector, IT operations, engineering, marketing, etc. Businesses of all types are using it. We, […]