Team Performance

You sit down for a performance review with one person and open a dashboard bearing their name. It shows the tickets they closed, the story points they delivered, and the defects ...

I’m sitting in a status meeting, listening to three people describe the same initiative in three different ways. One person believes the work is nearly finished. Someone e...

Your most capable person resigns. The one who carried the hardest work, covered the gaps, held the most context in their head. Within a week you can see exactly how much was rest...

If you’ve been managing highly specialized teams, you’ll certainly have seen how specialization dictates the priority of the work. Worse yet, it often creates road blocks pre...

Tell me if this sounds familiar. The bonus review comes around and everyone’s performance metrics are collected. The numbers go into a spreadsheet. People are ranked from hi...

Sooner or later, every delivery leader gets asked to produce a benchmark. The team's cycle time is finally on a chart, someone senior leans in, and out comes the question: how do...

Your CFD shows the gap. More work entering the system than leaving it. The cumulative flow lines are spreading apart and you can see the problem building in real time. Bu...

The engagement starts Monday. The coach hasn't met anyone yet. And the investigation is already done. Every bottleneck traced. Every aging item flagged. Every capacity gap qua...

I once spent two weeks building a recommendation for a leadership team. Throughput data, cycle time analysis, bottleneck mapping, aging work items. The whole picture. I walked in ...

Once upon a time, I decided to join a digital signage startup. Back then, Nave was a software development agency and our purpose was to help startups drive their development effo...

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...

It’s that time of the year once again. As we celebrate the close of one year and look towards the beginning of a new one, we’re all inclined to make a little bit of a recap. I...

It’s astonishing to see in practice how a simple pull strategy can improve the predictability of your delivery system so significantly, even after just a couple of months. The ...

Managing blockers effectively is the first step towards revealing the obstacles that cause delays and hinder your delivery speed. One of the practices that drive continuous improv...

“What is the industry standard of good flow efficiency?”, great question! Rather than just giving you an answer straight away, first, we need to spend some time going through...

What is the ultimate goal behind implementing WIP limits? Usually, teams only start thinking about introducing this practice the moment they realize that their work has become un...

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...

There is a simple way to eliminate the stress in your workplace and create a new narrative around how you manage your work. Recently, I’ve been thinking about the easy pitfall...