As the Agile approach to managing projects is getting more and more popular, there is a growing confusion about the project manager’s role. What happens to it? With Agile heavily preaching shared leadership and responsibility, is the project manager in such an environment doomed? Not at all. However, the PMs responsibilities change. Let’s find out […]
The culture of the company is the personality of your organization. It defines how people will interact and communicate with each other and how work will get done. That is why it can support the performance of the company, but it can also harm it. Make no mistake, every organization develops a culture, regardless if […]
Talking about best practices in Kanban is a bit of a controversial topic. Why? You might ask. Well, because Kanban is not a framework and therefore there isn’t a single best way to do it. Instead, you start with what you do now and then gradually evolve. Every team is different, so their application of […]
A little bit of prehistory It was 1 am in the morning on 01 Jan 2011. We could still hear the fading sound of fireworks as 99% of the country had just celebrated the new year. The remaining 1% were working – the police, the fire brigade, the medical workers and us – the founders […]
Introducing Kanban into your team or organization does not merely transform the way you manage work. It also impacts how you, collectively as a team, look at work. The big leap forward happens when team members start to think of their work as a system, instead of seeing it as a group of individual tasks. […]
Probably, Simon Sinek has never heard about Kanban or Enterprise agility. Or maybe he has. He looks like a smart guy. Well, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that he often provokes me to think actively and listen carefully. And this is what happened a few days ago while I was watching one of his […]
Agile mindset is one of the many terms in the Agile world that a lot of us probably understand differently. Despite the various interpretations, there is a consensus that an agile mindset embraces iteration, collaboration, proactiveness, and change. It prioritizes customer value and favors constant learning through experiments. By definition, a mindset is “a person’s […]
First of all, we want to thank Colleen Johnson for writing this insightful piece of content on the enterprise kanban topic for our blog. She sent it to us a while ago, and since then, the topic is generating a lot of interest. So we decided to refresh this blog post, and here it is. Enjoy it! The […]
Managing projects is not an easy job. Having just one under your belt requires a lot of commitment to ensure its successful realization and delivery. However, what if you have to deal with numerous projects, often simultaneously? The traditional response to this question would be to create detailed plans for them beforehand and allocate resources […]
“…and by the seventh day, God had finished the work He had been doing. After a long six days of brainstorming, he created Growth Hackers.” You haven’t read this part of the Bible, have you? Yeah, I know, it’s not there, I just made it up. But I wanted to make a point on how […]