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 Agile daily standups with your colleagues requires practice and nonetheless, experimentation. Over the course of the […]
In search of inspiration, practical advice or to enrich our common sense, nothing beats learning from the experience of others. It’s the most human thing – to relate to other fellow humans, to share both our success stories and mishaps. It’s no different in the business world – we tend to explore the industry experience […]
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 […]
What Is an Agile Team? An Agile team is a cross-functional group of people that are organized to work collaboratively in order to deliver a product increment. Agile teams are faster, more flexible, and more adaptable than traditional project groups. Teams work iteratively, completing a piece of the whole at a time which allows them […]
One of the basic principles of the Agile approach is the ability of employees and teams to self-organize – to make independent decisions that facilitate progress, teamwork, and the development of the organization in the desired direction. Self-organization is the basis of another organizational management model – a holacracy. In this blog post, we will […]
Grasping the difference between adopting the Agile methods into the work process (doing Agile) and shifting to the Agile mindset (being Agile) is a fundamental step to achieving a real transformation of the workflow, boosting engagement at all levels, and being productive. No matter your position at a company, the project you are working on, […]
Stakeholder analysis plays a pivotal role in project management. Of course, if you look at it from an “Agile” perspective, some variances occur – and that too for the better. For starters, the Agile approach jumps over a few hoops to get things done quickly. We are no longer looking at traditional methodologies for managing […]
Traditionally, answering the question “When will it be done?” happens in a deterministic way where teams prepare strict deadlines for their projects. And while this approach works for stable projects, operating in a volatile environment requires a way to reflect our plans’ uncertainty. This calls for probabilistic planning, where project managers communicate possible outcomes (forecasts) […]
When looking for information about strategy execution, we are sure you will find endless resources on the internet. Among all the tips, tricks, best practices, etc., it gets harder and harder to spot authentic information. As one of our commitments at Kanbanize is to always deliver valuable content to our audience, we are happy to […]
Welcome to our first blog post of 2021! We wish you all lots of health and success in the new year. 2020 was unusual and turbulent, but there is one certain thing. We live in a new world that requires a new way of thinking if we want to thrive in it. Even though last […]