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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]