At Kanbanize, we believe that the essence of agility lies in our ability to cut through the noise and focus our most valuable asset, TIME, on the things that truly matter! After all, that’s why we built our product in the first place: to help people do meaningful work and, by that, accelerate innovation. But […]
A famous quote by investor and author John Doerr states: “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything”. Now that doesn’t mean to undermine the value of good ideas. On the contrary, it aims to portray how good ideas, with their proper execution, can propel companies to achieve true greatness. And we couldn’t agree more. If you’ve […]
Have you ever seen weekly status updates pass for actual project visibility? Well, I have, and they shouldn’t! Project visibility is so much more than a short update via email. More importantly, it plays a crucial role in project success and alignment between organizational levels or stakeholders. This is why it is worrying when some […]
Continuous improvement! If you’ve been following Kanbanize for a while, then you’ve probably heard us say this quite often. That’s simply because it’s the main culprit behind our company’s growth. Ever since the inception of Kanbanize, our founders have persistently followed the idea that “There is always a better way”. This is so deeply rooted […]
All progress starts by telling the truth. If you are a project manager and you want to become more efficient you have to face it – Gantt charts are outdated. They just don’t bring the same value as the contemporary methods for workflow and project management. Don’t get me wrong. They played their positive role, […]
Kanban is famous for enabling teams to boost their process efficiency. We have witnessed cases achieving as much as 300% efficiency growth. Still, not every Kanban story has a happy ending. With all the good that the Kanban method can do, there were some limitations that have been troubling managers interested in it. For example, […]
Kanban is probably the best thing that can happen to a DevOps team from the “project/process management” point of view. It is infinitely flexible and is able to address the core issues that a regular DevOps team has in a lightweight and unobtrusive way. Learn more about it in this blog article.
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So, what is it that makes a Kanban implementation successful? There is not a definitive answer to that question, but I will attempt to “prescribe” my own rules that have helped us so far.
Many Kanbanize users are software guys that have been practicing SCRUM for a while and for some reason (which we all understand very well) want to move to Kanban. Ex-scrummers, you’re on the right track to be looking for something new. For more details how to do things better, check the article itself.