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      Story points to hours
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago 6 6 min read
      Continuous forecasting
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      Avoid project delays
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      Knowledge discovery process
      Process Improvement, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      6 min read
      Commitments for new teams
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      Stay on track with your commitments
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      Stop assigning due dates
      Project Management, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago

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      Merry Christmas 2020
      Process Improvement, Team Performance

      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…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago 2 5 min read
      Story point estimation
      Process Improvement, Team Performance

      You Should Never Resort to Story Point Estimation Again

      Story point estimation is a widely known technique that Scrum teams use to plan their work. However, this approach is not objective and has the potential to hinder your performance. There’s a very simple explanation that we can use to…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago 5 8 min read
      Moving cards backward on your Kanban board
      Process Improvement, Team Performance

      Why Your Performance Will Decline If You Don’t Stop Moving Cards Backward on Your Kanban Board

      Moving cards backward on your Kanban board is one of the most common antipatterns that agile teams practice. And often, the negative effect it has on your productivity is not obvious. If a card doesn’t meet the criteria from the…

      Sonya Siderova , 3 years ago 4 6 min read
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      Meet the Author

      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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