Does Your Kanban Board Reflect Reality?
All too often, as you are just getting started with evaluating your flow metrics, you find that the data you have collected is entirely unreliable. As a result, it is impossible to use that data to make data-driven decisions. Most…
How to Get Your Leadership Team on Board with Kanban Analytics
Every business strives to realize more revenue with less cash burn while continuing to delight their customers. Often though, the main sources of inefficiencies preventing business success are invisible. You need to turn on the light and reveal the current…
How to Make Reliable Probabilistic Forecasts Without Sizing Your Stories Into Even Pieces
Story sizing into even pieces is a widely-spread activity, often considered to be a prerequisite to making reliable future predictions. The concept of artificially splitting your work items into even pieces to be able to produce an accurate delivery forecast…
3 Strategies to Help Your Team Embrace Flow Metrics
When it comes to achieving predictability, it’s the collaborative effort that brings everything together to deliver sustainable results. Sustainable predictability comes with effective management of the flow of work. You need to manage your workflows effectively to be able to…
A Quick Guide to Dynamic Prioritization
How do you know which work item to start next? If you’re a Scrum practitioner you would probably sit down twice a month and arrange the top x number of items so your team knows what to work on. Usually,…
Short Motivational Stories: An Interview with Zoran Vujkov, an Agile Coach and Consultant
In today’s edition of our short motivational stories, we’ll be speaking to Zoran Vujkov, an agile coach and consultant who uses Nave to help his clients increase the efficiency, productivity and delivery speed of their operations. Sonya: Welcome, Zoran! Could…
How Understanding Failure Demand Can Transform Your Product Into a Fit-For-Purpose Value Proposition
The typical narrative surrounding growing businesses is that, when the demand starts rising, they find they are struggling to cope. With a tremendous amount of customer requests constantly coming your way, you would probably assume that with the growth of…
Short Motivational Stories: An Interview with Jovan Jakovljević, Scrum Master at Wireless Media
In today’s short motivational story, we’ll be speaking to Jovan Jakovljević, Scrum Master at Wireless Media, a valuable Nave customer and a passionate agile practitioner who always strives to keep improving. Sonya: Welcome, Jovan! It’s always a great pleasure to…
The Fundamental Reason Why You Fail to Deliver on Time (Plus the 3-Step Product Management Guide to Meeting Your Commitments)
Businesses across the globe fail to deliver on time. In the early days of prison warfare, a deadline meant a line that was drawn around a prison to deter prisoners from crossing. If they did, they’d be shot dead on…
4 Strategies to Augment Efficiency When Managing a Remote Team
As it becomes more common for companies to operate virtually, we are learning more about the challenges of managing a remote team and how it impacts our employees. But, even if working from home is new to your organization, remote…
Achieving a More Predictable Workflow: Average Age of Work in Progress
What does it mean to maintain a stable system, and, moreover, why does this actually matter? The short answer is that stable systems translate into predictable systems. Predictable systems enable you to give a confident answer to the quite common…
Leverage Your Improvement Efforts: Cycle Time Breakdown
One of the most efficient ways to achieve a robust and highly productive business operation is to pay close attention to the bottlenecks in your system and manage them effectively. In his book ‘Theory of Constraints’, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt defines…
Your Hiring Process, Optimized: How to Hire Dependable Freelancers, Faster?
The modern workforce is rapidly swapping the security of an office-based, nine-to-five job with the flexibility of freelancing. In fact, figures from Forbes suggest 59% of U.S. companies now use a flexible workforce to some degree, with new tactics to…