“Are We That Slow?” How Jakob Buis Helps Teams Find the Real Delivery Problem
This week, we’re joined by Jakob Buis, a freelance engineering manager who h...
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Nave Blog Archive
A list of all our blog articles, from now until 2018.
How Do You Choose Metrics That Encourage Teamwork?
You sit down for a performance review with one person and open a dashboard bea...
How to Spot Performance Drift Before It Shows Up in Your Metrics
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re sitting in a planning meeting while ...
Why Do People Return to Old Ways After Organizational Change?
You introduce a new system, explain the process, train the people involved, an...
Visual Management for Delivery Teams Starts With a Board Everyone Can Trust
I’m sitting in a status meeting, listening to three people describe the sa...
Want to Chat with Your Delivery Data? Decide Who Owns the Math First (Build the Engine, or Use One That’s Ready)
Sooner or later, every org points an LLM at its raw delivery data and arrive...
Upstream Kanban: How to Handle Every Request Without Committing Too Early (and Put a Number on Your Yes)
A request lands in the middle of a meeting. Can your team take this one on? ...
Everyone Thought Development Was Slow. 77% of the Time, the Work Was Just Waiting.
The team looked slow. Lead Time was 19.8 days. Cycle Time was 13.6 days. In...
Team Burnout Shows Up in Your Delivery Data Long Before the Resignation Letter
Your most capable person resigns. The one who carried the hardest work, covere...
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How to Improve Your Delivery System One Measurable Change at a Time
Weeks or months into a transformation, performance is worse than when you star...
Your Team Is Hitting Its Velocity. So Why Is Delivery Taking So Long?
For a long time, I thought that if a Scrum team maintained consistent velocity...
How to Unleash the Power of Your Highly Specialized Team (Using a Simple Process Policy)
If you’ve been managing highly specialized teams, you’ll certainly have se...
How Changing Our Incentives Changed the Way Our Team Worked
Tell me if this sounds familiar. The bonus review comes around and everyone...
How to Handle Blocked Tasks Without Losing Predictability
Every delivery team eventually runs into the same situation. A piece of work i...
Why Industry Benchmarks Don’t Work for Cycle Time (And What to Bring to Leadership Instead)
Sooner or later, every delivery leader gets asked to produce a benchmark. The ...
When Leadership Asks “When Will It Be Done?”, Here’s the Answer That Ends the Negotiation
If you coach teams or manage delivery, you already know the moment I mean. Som...
Can You Trust the Flow Metrics Your AI Calculates? Here’s How to Check
More and more teams are pointing an LLM at their raw delivery data, strai...
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