How Understanding Failure Demand Can Transform Your Product Into a Fit-For-Purpose Value Proposition
The typical narrative surrounding growing businesses is that, when the demand starts rising, they find they are struggling to cope. With a tremendous amount of customer requests constantly coming your way, you would probably assume that with the growth of…
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…
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…
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…
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