Achieving Sustainable Predictability Chapter 2: Switching to a 4-Day Workweek in Less than 3 Months
In this 4-part series, we’re going to take you through a sneak-peek into the realm of achieving sustainable predictability. In the first chapter, we talked about the importance of setting up and managing explicit process policies. Today, I’d like to…
Achieving Sustainable Predictability Chapter 1: How to Set and Manage Explicit Policies
In this 4-part series, we’re going to take a sneak peek into the realm of achieving sustainable predictability. The first and foremost step to take towards reaching that goal is using explicit policies. The aim of this strategy is to…
The 3 Principles of Kanban Change Management: How to Introduce Change in Your Organization
Implementing the three change management principles of Kanban will help you steer change in the right direction while leading successful business agility initiatives. When introducing a new agile methodology in an organization, I often see people designing the perfect process…
The Top 3 Benefits of Introducing Queue States to Your Kanban System Design
Using queue states within our processes is the cornerstone of achieving high flow efficiency. Introducing queue states to our system designs not only enables us to manage our work effectively but also uncovers opportunities for improvement that wouldn’t otherwise be…
What is a Commitment Point in Kanban?
One of the top reasons behind delaying (or even canceling) work that has already been started is the act of early commitment. When our work items move into the delivery process while we still have a little knowledge about what…
Kanban for Design & Innovation Class Review: The 5-Step Process to Narrowing Down Your Customer Requests
Are you working on the right things? Even if you have a well-established downstream process, to be able to deliver actual value to your customers and translate output to an outcome, you need to narrow down the funnel of options…
3 Strategies for Learning from Failure To Grow Your Business
Learning from failure is the cornerstone of continuous improvement. Perceiving your shortcomings as opportunities will ultimately facilitate an environment of motivation, engagement and dedication. Way too often, I have conversations with customers at Nave who are trying to discard certain…
The 100% Utilization Paradox: How to Achieve Optimal Workflow Efficiency All While Relieving Team Overburden
Avoiding a 100% utilization of your employees’ time is the only way to achieve 100% workflow utilization. Your delivery speed and the predictability of your systems depend on how efficiently you’re managing the flow of work. Even though it sounds…
How to Preserve the Predictability of Your Workflow Using the Health Zones on the Aging Chart
The health zones on the Aging Chart will help you stay on track with your commitments and ultimately preserve the predictability of your system. Often, we make the mistake of assuming that our projects will go ahead exactly as we…
Why You’ll Struggle to Achieve Optimal Business Outcomes Unless You Stop Comparing Teams’ Performance
Comparing teams’ performance is neither fair nor relevant. I’m very excited to finally get to watch the Olympics this year. Countries all over the world will send their best professional athletes who, throughout the competition, will truly give it their…
Why Perfectionism Will Never Let You Push that Launch Button
Perfectionism is a fallacy that leads to overplanning, procrastination and failure to launch. Back in the day, when we were just a couple of months away from releasing the initial version of Nave, one of my teammates was delegated with…
How to Bring Purpose to Individuals’ Idle Time to Increase Your Business Capabilities
Optimizing individuals’ idle time contradicts the optimization of the flow of work. The cornerstone of achieving predictable delivery systems is aligning teams’ capability with business demand. The most efficient way to get things done is to only start as much…
How to Set WIP Limits on Your Columns When You’re Just Getting Started
Limiting work in progress is a commonly-used activity practiced by countless Agile teams. And it is the most effective tool you could possibly use to create a strong, clear focus for your team and dramatically improve your delivery speed. However,…