The Fundamental Reason Why You Fail to Deliver on Time (Plus the 3-Step Product Management Guide to Meeting Your Commitments)
Businesses across the globe fail to deliver on time. In the early days of prison warfare, a deadline meant a line that was drawn around a prison to deter prisoners from crossing. If they did, they’d be shot dead on…
4 Strategies to Augment Efficiency When Managing a Remote Team
As it becomes more common for companies to operate virtually, we are learning more about the challenges of managing a remote team and how it impacts our employees. But, even if working from home is new to your organization, remote…
Achieving a More Predictable Workflow: Average Age of Work in Progress
What does it mean to maintain a stable system, and, moreover, why does this actually matter? The short answer is that stable systems translate into predictable systems. Predictable systems enable you to give a confident answer to the quite common…
Leverage Your Improvement Efforts: Cycle Time Breakdown
One of the most efficient ways to achieve a robust and highly productive business operation is to pay close attention to the bottlenecks in your system and manage them effectively. In his book ‘Theory of Constraints’, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt defines…
Your Hiring Process, Optimized: How to Hire Dependable Freelancers, Faster?
The modern workforce is rapidly swapping the security of an office-based, nine-to-five job with the flexibility of freelancing. In fact, figures from Forbes suggest 59% of U.S. companies now use a flexible workforce to some degree, with new tactics to…
Loading Your Data to Nave
Nave provides integration with some of the most popular management tools on the market, including big names like Jira, Trello, Asana, and Azure DevOps. However, our customers often track their data manually or just want to control the data that…
A Big Thank You from Nave!
It’s been a busy year for us here at Nave, so it’s time to let our hair down, have some fun & celebrate the end of a successful year. But, none of it would have been possible without your trust…
The Art of Effective Management: Trust, Respect, Appreciation
I would like to tell you a story. I want to tell you a story that repeats itself very often. In an environment where there is no concept of flow and work gets pushed onto teams expectations become unrealistic. When the…
Data-Driven Decision Making: The Value of Probabilistic Thinking
More than 50 years ago, Peter Drucker, a management consultant and author, described as the founder of modern management, predicted we would shift to a knowledge society. He said information would change the way people work – that knowledge will…
Change Leadership Masterclass Review: Practical, Evidence-Based Guidance on Disrupting the Status Quo
Learning how to deal with resistance, excuses and setbacks when leading a change in an organization. Hundreds of thousands of flickering oil lamps lit during India’s biggest holiday, Diwali, cast a mellow glow over the streets, steps and city squares…
Maximize Your Predictability: How to Manage Blocked Work in Kanban
Building a robust, reliable system that enables a smooth, predictable delivery of work requires a great deal of effort. However, even with an efficient Kanban pull system in place, one where the team pulls the work themselves, WIP limits are…
Linking Nave with Jira in Under a Minute
You asked and we’ve delivered; Jira Software teams can now use Nave to optimize their software development processes. If you use Jira Server to manage your workflow, and your instance is not exposed publicly, or you just prefer to control…
User Stories: Delivering Value, One Piece at a Time
Understanding what you are working on, and more importantly why you are working on it, is at the heart of business success. User stories play a central role in bridging the gap between the customer and the delivery team while…