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…
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…
Kanban Roles: The Right Work, Done Right
From ideation to delivery, work flows through the value stream until it reaches the end customer The Kanban Metho is designed to optimize the flow of work as it moves through the value stream. It’s a system that works upon…
Flow Efficiency: Powering the Current of Your Work
How can we be more efficient? What’s holding us back from delivering great customer value, sooner? These are pivotal questions shared by all success-driven product managers. Productivity rises with the improvement of team engagement and working practices. The greatest leverage…
How to Use the Nave Power-Up in Trello
We’re excited to announce our integration with Trello – Kanban teams can now use Nave without ever leaving Trello. The Nave Power-Up allows you to create immersive analytical charts from your Trello boards – past, current, and upcoming. All charts…
Aging Work in Kanban: Tasks that Linger in Your Flow
One of the most quoted sayings in Kanban translates to: ”stop starting and start finishing.” This principle of not starting new work until the task at hand is completed, also called a Kanban pull system, is one of the central…
Productive Synergy: Kanban vs Scrum
Both Kanban and Scrum are designed to help teams build better products and services with fewer obstacles along the way. However, a lot of product teams still question whether they should use Kanban or Scrum in order to deliver outstanding…
Kanban Pull System: A Simple Way to Increase Efficiency
Unlike a push system, where work is pushed onto teams regardless of their capacity, pull systems prevent team overburden and increase workflows efficiency. Teams pull work as they finish what they started while keeping their focus on the highest priorities….
Workflow Efficiency: Balancing Demand Against Throughput
Every process has a bottleneck. The Theory of Constraints states that, in order to improve any system, the weakest link must be eliminated. Once a bottleneck has been identified and resolved, the flow of work moves on to the next…
