How to Unleash the Power of Your Highly Specialized Team (Using a Simple Process Policy)
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 preventing your team from delivering results quickly and efficiently. The fact is, specialization decreases…
The 3 Fundamentals to an Accurate Flow Efficiency Calculation
“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 the ins and outs of calculating flow efficiency and the outcomes…
How Much Data Do You Need to Make Reliable Delivery Predictions?
There are some questions that I get asked pretty much every single day. How much data do we need to make reliable delivery predictions? What if we don’t currently have any historical data? What if we have plenty of data,…
How to Manage Defects Effectively (Without Moving Cards Backward on Your Board)
A common scenario that often triggers teams to move cards backward on your Kanban board is handling defects during the ‘Testing’ phase. Way too often, when teams discover an issue with the implementation, they move the card back into the ‘Development’…
What Is Flow and How Can I Measure It?
What is flow and, most importantly, why does it actually matter? Enabling flow and keeping your attention on the main flow metrics will not only enable you to deliver results in a consistent predictable manner, but it’ll also pave the…
Achieving Sustainable Predictability Chapter 4: Setting and Managing Reliable Delivery Commitments
In this 4-part series, we’re going to take you through a sneak-peek into the realm of achieving sustainable predictability. In the third chapter, we talked about how to use data-driven decision making to improve your business outcomes. Today, I’d like…
Achieving Sustainable Predictability Chapter 2: Switching to a 4-Day Workweek in Less than 3 Months
In this 4-part series, we’re going to take you through a sneak-peek into the realm of achieving sustainable predictability. In the first chapter, we talked about the importance of setting up and managing explicit process policies. Today, I’d like to…
Achieving Sustainable Predictability Chapter 1: How to Set and Manage Explicit Policies to Bring Consistency Across Your Teams
In this 4-part series, we’re going to take a sneak peek into the realm of achieving sustainable predictability. The first and foremost step to take towards reaching that goal is using explicit policies. The aim of this strategy is to…
The Top 3 Benefits of Introducing Queue States to Your Kanban System Design
Using queue states within our processes is the cornerstone of achieving high flow efficiency. Introducing queue states to our system designs not only enables us to manage our work effectively but also uncovers opportunities for improvement that wouldn’t otherwise be…
3 Strategies for Learning from Failure To Grow Your Business
Learning from failure is the cornerstone of continuous improvement. Perceiving your shortcomings as opportunities will ultimately facilitate an environment of motivation, engagement and dedication. Way too often, I have conversations with customers at Nave who are trying to discard certain…
