How Kanban is Reshaping the Future of Project Management
Businesses evolve at a rapid pace. To respond to market challenges and expectations, organizations need to keep up with the changing trends in technology, market behavior, and work culture. These changes don’t only affect how businesses innovate, but they also affect how companies operate. Time and again, we see
Agile Mindset – Product Focus vs Project Focus
What makes an agile approach to completing a project different than a traditional approach to completing a project? Both have the same end goal. Both want a successful project on time and within budget and happy customers. Agile Mindset: Focus on Product Decisions, Not on Project Decisions An Agile
How Scrum Masters Are Using Kanban to Improve Scrum
If you’re a seasoned Scrum practitioner, you’ve most likely witnessed horrific implementations of Scrum throughout your consulting career. Some organizations go gung-ho on “doing Scrum.” All their messages, training programs, and campaigns scream Agile. But when you look closely, they seem to be putting on a show or what
Scrum Sprint Planning with Kanban
Scrum Sprint Planning with Kanban During Sprint Planning, Scrum teams play fortune-tellers and try their best to predict how much work they can commit to. Most of the time, this is a difficult feat to pull. The usual approach of teams would be to take their average velocity and
Value Stream Mapping – Defining how to maximize the flow of value delivered
“Control your process, control your projects” In 2002 I worked for a multi-national technology organization delivering awesome products to consumers around the world. In the early 2000s, the company was in a race to be the best product company on the planet. I was on an Enterprise team whose
6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement
If you’re familiar with Scrum, you might have heard the term backlog refinement. Though not an official Scrum ceremony based on the official Scrum guide, Scrum practitioners have found backlog refinement an important event in their practice. But many are struggling to keep a good backlog refinement session going.
