Why You’ll Struggle to Achieve Optimal Business Outcomes Unless You Stop Comparing Teams’ Performance
Comparing teams’ performance is neither fair nor relevant. I’m very excited to finally get to watch the Olympics this year. Countries all over the world will send their best professional athletes who, throughout the competition, will truly give it their…
How to Bring Purpose to Individuals’ Idle Time to Increase Your Business Capabilities
Optimizing individuals’ idle time contradicts the optimization of the flow of work. The cornerstone of achieving predictable delivery systems is aligning teams’ capability with business demand. The most efficient way to get things done is to only start as much…
How to Set WIP Limits on Your Columns When You’re Just Getting Started
Limiting work in progress is a commonly-used activity practiced by countless Agile teams. And it is the most effective tool you could possibly use to create a strong, clear focus for your team and dramatically improve your delivery speed. However,…
How to Use Kanban Analytics to Streamline Your Scrum Events
More and more Scrum teams realize the benefits of adopting Kanban to manage their work more effectively. And the benefits are countless. Adopting practices from both worlds is a very effective strategy, which provides many businesses with an unprecedented competitive…
The 3 Mistakes I Made by Using a Kanban Blocked Column (+ What I Learned from Them)
If an item is blocked for weeks, do you keep it in the same column and allow it to occupy the WIP in that column, or is it more convenient to move it to a dedicated Kanban blocked column? Back…
The Flaw of Tracking Individual Performance
What you measure shows what you value! If we’re measuring individual performance, that clearly indicates to each person in the team that we value individual performance. If your team members think that individual performance is a metric of value, they…
The 7-Step Sustainable Predictability Roadmap
Let’s talk about building our credibility for a moment. What does it take to build our reputation as professionals? Can we and our teams commit to a delivery scope or delivery date that we could actually meet? Do we have…
How to Enable a Stable Delivery System in 2 Easy Steps (Even if You’re Just Getting Started!)
What is the main prerequisite to enabling sustainable predictability and making reliable delivery forecasts? Is it to slice your stories into even pieces? Or, you’ll probably need to have a ton of data to base your delivery prediction on. Not…
4 Myths of Probabilistic Forecasting
Probabilistic forecasting is an approach that helps teams produce dependable delivery predictions based on their past performance data. A lot of teams, however, still question whether they should use this method. Today, we’ll dispel four of the most widely spread myths…
The Management Paradox: When It’s Time to Stop Managing People
Managing people does not lead to improvements in your delivery performance. This is due to one simple reason – time spent at a desk doesn’t necessarily translate into productive time. Productivity should, first and foremost, be assessed in terms of…
Meet the Author

Sonya Siderova is a passionate product manager and a driving force behind Nave, a Kanban analytics suite that helps teams improve their delivery speed through data-driven decision making. When she's not catering to her two little ones, you might find Sonya absorbed in a good heavyweight boxing match or behind a screen crafting a new blog post.
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