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…
5 Drivers of Sustainable Team Engagement
An engaged and enthusiastic team stands behind every thriving business. Supporting an environment of a strong organizational culture where people feel trusted, respected and valued is a recipe for success. Unfortunately, not all businesses recognize this. Figures from Gallup suggest…
Kanban Backlog: A Guide for Self-Managed Teams
Effective backlog management is pivotal to any successful project. Prioritizing the right work in the right order plays a key role in continually delivering customer value. Manually prioritizing all backlog items, however, can be quite time-consuming. Moreover, without clearly defined…
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…
5 Key Qualities Successful Project Managers Have in Common
Managing a project, whether we’re talking about software development or planning a corporate event, can be daunting, to say the least. The reality is that there is no secret formula that will make your project unwrap flawlessly; very often you’ll…
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…
Team Commitment in Kanban: How to Set Achievable Goals without Trimming Down Your User Stories
The Kanban Method revolves around the concept that work should be released early and often. To that end, product teams are focused on the constant delivery of value. The challenge lies in defining realistic goals and build sustainable team commitment….
