How to Turn Your Daily (Status Update) Meetings into Outcome-Driven Events
Your daily call is not and should not be a status update meeting. Trust me when I say that if the purpose of your calls is to get a status report, you run the risk of drastically impacting your improvement…
How to Align Your Team With Your Business Objectives
Where do you see your company in 5 years? What are your strategic goals and long-term plans? As Michael Hyatt says, “If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don’t have a clear…
Your Board Design Can Make or Break Your Team Performance and Here Is Why (+ What to Do about It)
Where does the process of building predictable workflows start? What, first and foremost, needs to happen to enable you to make reliable delivery commitments and hit your targets consistently? Ultimately, achieving sustainable predictability begins with a shift in your perspective…
The Little-Known Fact About Your Cycle Time That Will Help You Make Reliable Delivery Commitments
Knowledge work is notorious for its unpredictable nature. There will always be a vast array of different scenarios that could possibly happen in the future. Frankly, it is just impossible to eliminate the uncertain and unknown. So, why do so…
The Sustainable Predictability Maturity Model: 5 Stages of Awareness
Nave is all about bringing awareness to the state of your delivery workflows. The sole goal that we have is to provide a level of transparency that helps managers continuously uncover what’s hindering their team performance. We strive to give…
How to Leverage Your Kanban Analytics in 4 Steps
How can you leverage your Kanban analytics to make the most out of your improvement efforts? Is there an approach that will enable you to continuously realize business outcomes using your past performance data? Yes, there is! And today, I’m…
Do You Really Need Predictability?
There are certainly business cases where predictability doesn’t actually matter. If you are working upon release dates that take place twice per year and you always meet these deadlines, or there are no deadlines at all and you deliver results…
This Is My Story… What’s Yours?
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 efforts in the right direction. The company was aiming to…
How to Uncover the Impediments That Hinder Your Predictability in 3 Steps
Since I started my business, I’ve been constantly looking for opportunities for improvement. For me, these are optimizing the way we manage the work, improving our delivery speed, figuring out approaches to make my people more engaged and more motivated….
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…
How (Not) To Lose a Customer in Less Than Two Months
The way you manage your work has the potential to make or break your value proposition. Your ability to develop a continuous improvement mindset, keep your attention on your customer experience, collect feedback and incorporate it into the services you…
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,…