Project Management

When delivery slows down and deadlines start slipping, the response is almost always the same: push harder. Longer hours, more effort, more pressure on the team. Sometimes finger...

Weeks or months into a transformation, performance is worse than when you started. Leadership approved the transformation because they wanted better performance. Instead, deli...

Every delivery team eventually runs into the same situation. A piece of work is progressing well until it suddenly stops. Maybe you're waiting on another team. Maybe a customer n...

If you coach teams or manage delivery, you already know the moment I mean. Someone senior asks when the work will be done. A date comes with it, pushed across the table with no c...

More and more teams are pointing an LLM at their raw delivery data, straight out of Jira or Azure DevOps, and asking it for their flow metrics. Cycle time, throughput, a for...

Almost every delivery team I work with is pointing AI at the same place: the building. Developers adopt it, the coding genuinely speeds up, and there's real excitement about...

Every delivery team has done it. A high-priority request comes in, so the team drops what they were doing and pushes it through. The urgent item ships, everyone exhales, and...

I opened a dashboard in Nave. Before I'd looked at a single chart, this was waiting in the sidebar. Three insights. One marked URGENT. The Deployment Constraint Ready for Deploy...

You've seen this meeting. The data is on screen. The signal is clear. The recommendation is specific. Everyone aligns quickly. The decision is made. It felt right. It looked rig...

For a long time, the agile coach’s job has been one of the hardest jobs in the room. Not because the work is unclear. Not because the system can’t be understood. But because...

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that does not come from working too hard. It comes from knowing exactly what will go wrong, seeing it clearly ahead of time, and still bein...

You're in the quarterly portfolio review. The dashboard is up on the screen. Active initiatives: 47. Up from 38 last quarter. Average cycle time: 12 weeks. Up from 9. WIP across...

Often, managers use average delivery times to make future predictions. Even though this method is intuitive and widely spread, making delivery commitments based on averages is not...

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 possibl...

The new year is just around the corner, so now is the perfect time to stop and reflect on your goals and the next steps you plan to take. With that in mind, I’ve put together a ...

When it comes to introducing probabilistic forecasting, it is paramount that you tackle any resistance head-on. Do you have kids? My son David is 4 years old, and my daughter Lo...

Introducing WIP limits is one of the most powerful approaches to reduce delivery times by aligning demand with capacity and keeping the focus on the most important work.  Often ...

Getting started with Monte Carlo simulations as an alternative approach to making delivery forecasts can be challenging, especially if you’ve been stuck estimating your work usi...