process constraints vs bottlenecks

Not All Constraints Are Bottlenecks! Understanding Your System’s Limiting Factors

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 […]

what is workflow efficiency

Improving Workflow Efficiency: The Key to an Effective Process

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 […]

how to implement okrs

Implementing OKRs: a Four-Point Guide

You’re the head of an engineering company delivering a digital ticketing system for public transport, and your goal is to expand your business and become a nationwide leader. Naturally, you’d gather everyone around and announce your long-term development plan.   Your vision is out – “becoming the main ticketing systems’ provider for public transport nationwide”, and […]

cross departmental collaboration

A Step-by-Step Guide To Cross-Departmental Collaboration

Cross-departmental collaboration is one of the biggest challenges for project managers implementing Lean and Agile practices. No doubt about it.  The literature on the topic, however, often prescribes intangible and impractical ways to deal with this challenge. You will read about “eliminating dependencies”, “forming cross-functional teams”, “getting rid of silos” and so on. While these […]

agile capacity planning

How to Master Agile Capacity Planning with Kanban(ize)?

“How do you do capacity planning with Kanban?” – this has been a recurring question for us at Kanbanize. That is why we decided to address this topic formally through this article. When we get asked this question, it is usually one of these objectives/questions that people have: As a manager, I need to know […]

Kanban in practice

Kanban in Practice: Where to Start and How to Excel?

How do you craft an efficient and sustainable process which aligns people and keeps delivery steady? You need to get your hands dirty; there’s no other way around it. So today, we are excited to walk you through the multiple ways Kanban is applied in practice.  Kanban can be extremely helpful. There’s just one important thing to keep in mind when applying it: you have to tailor it to your […]

project management dependencies

How to Handle Dependencies in Project Management?

Before we jump into the profound topic of managing project dependencies, let’s set the ground for what this article covers and what it doesn’t.  First, this article will not educate you on what dependencies in a project are and why they harm your organization. If you’re reading this, you’re most likely aware of the topic […]

Agile challenges

Why Agile Doesn’t Work in Every Case & What Are the Top Agile Challenges?

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 […]