How the J Curve Effect Defines the Success of Your Transformation Initiative
There is a concept called the J curve effect that explains why revolutionary changes usually fail. What’s more, this approach ultimately defines the success threshold of our transformation initiative. The need for change emerges when there is no longer satisfaction…
How the Wizards Scrum Team Immensely Improved Their Predictability in Just 2 Months (all by Applying a Simple Pull Strategy)
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 Wizards are a development team, working for a start-up digital signage…
Why Your Delivery Predictions Will Always Be Wrong if You Keep Mapping Story Points to Hours
When it comes to making delivery commitments, mapping story points to hours to estimate your work is a terrible piece of advice. In fact, there is a very simple exercise that can be used to reveal this paradox. Bar Vaccin…
How to Meet Your Long-Term Goals Using Continuous Forecasting
Continuous forecasting is ultimately the best strategy that you can implement to stay on track and keep your commitments in the long run. When my husband and I moved to Belgium, about 8 years ago, I fell in love with…
5 Work Management Tips to Avoid Project Delays
Managing the flow of work effectively and staying on top of the obstacles that hinder your performance is the cornerstone to avoiding project delays. If you’ve committed to a project deadline and along the way you’ve realized you won’t be…
Do You Perceive Your Workflow as a Knowledge Discovery Process?
Modeling your workflow as a knowledge discovery process stays true to the nature of knowledge work and is fundamental to enabling continuous improvement. If you consider your workflow steps as containers for workers, you’re highly likely to hinder your ability…
How to Make Commitments for New Teams using Probabilistic Forecasting
Often, new projects start with a team that just has been brought together, and it’s a constant struggle for managers to make realistic commitments for new teams. When the team has never worked together before, using historical data to make…
How to Stay on Track with Your Commitments & Enable a Supportive Environment
Whether you’re managing your projects or working against the wire to meet a deadline, it is crucial to keep tracking your progress so that, if you go off track, you can quickly adjust the direction you’re heading in, meet your…
Why You Will Keep Struggling to Deliver on Your Commitments If You Don’t Quit Assigning Due Dates
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year! We hope that the start of 2021 brings health, joy, prosperity and happiness for you, your family and your teams. When it comes to project…
Our Christmas Wish For You!
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. It’s a fresh new…
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