At the twilight of 2018, we evaluate what we managed to achieve throughout the year and look forward with hope to what is to come in 2019. If you are among those brave leaders who are always chasing process improvement, at this time of the year, you are probably considering how to scale your efforts […]
When talking about Lean, usually people tend to focus on the process management part. However, few realize that just adopting the most emblematic management tools such as Kanban may not necessarily bring the desired improvement without changing the way they lead. Now, we don’t plan to bore you with all the leadership fluff. Nor do […]
Stand-up meetings have become a sacred ritual for teams using Agile in any form. They are fantastic for keeping a company aligned and focused in the same direction. Although implementing them is not difficult, making the most of these daily gatherings with your colleagues requires practice and nonetheless, experimentation. Over the course of the past […]
The Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) is the new big thing in the Kanban world. It maps all 6 core practices of the Kanban method to 7 levels of organizational maturity. The KMM responds to the need for help to cope with resistance to change. Furthermore, it helps to properly introduce the practices needed to make […]
Do you know what sets apart successful companies and managers from their unsuccessful counterparts? A lot actually, but some of the most significant differences lay in the way they set goals, track progress and work to achieve them. To be more effective in each of these three elements, it is not uncommon for managers to […]
When talking about marketing, we are often so focused on looking for ways of reaching our target audiences that we rarely consider how to do so efficiently. During my career, I’ve witnessed time after time marketers starting far more work than they are able to finish, priding themselves on how busy they are all the […]
“When you visualize, then you materialize.” This quote of the American psychologist Denis Waitley perfectly summarizes one of the most effective tools used by modern leaders for managing their time, team process or even entire companies. Although there are different means to use for visualizing work, there’s hardly any tool capable of outperforming a task […]
Formal roles are important to people, we get that. We even had a recent company-wide discussion on the topic. As Lean blossoms best in an environment involving as little constraints as possible for flow to develop and evolve, we want to address the topic on roles in Kanban. Recently, I overheard an old question related […]
It is normal for most teams that are just starting out with Kanban to put the traditional, physical implementation of the method into practice. However, when you start to get the hang of it and reach a point where rapid process improvement becomes more difficult, you’ll need the added functionalities that Kanban software solutions provide […]
Should we avoid creating tasks that simply can’t have a meaningful definition of “done”? I stumbled upon this dilemma a while ago. It is a logical question, mostly related to agile software development, but it is more than relevant for all sorts of teams. Especially those practicing Lean and Kanban in particular. In the following […]