Your path to business agility
Posts byLiz is a content strategist at Planview. She worked at LeanKit prior to the company being acquired by Planview. With more than 7 years’ of Agile experience, Liz passionately believes in the transformative power that practicing Lean-Kanban principles can have on teams and organizations.
A patient-first approach has always been at the heart of Edwards’ business (pun intended); but as the business grew in size and complexity, it struggled to achieve the manufacturing agility required to perform at scale. That’s when LeanKit became part of the Edwards story. With LeanKit, Edwards’ globally distributed teams are able to connect strategy...
It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. But it’s not always easy to identify them. Blind spots are often shrouded in good intentions. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. The trick is knowing the difference between blind spots and healthy Agile practices. In this blog post, you’ll learn about five common Agile transformation blind spots...
For Andrew Doran, a program portfolio manager working in the banking industry in the U.K., managing risks in LeanKit has yielded big benefits. Read on to learn how he and his department leverage Planview’s Enterprise Kanban solution (AKA LeanKitTM) to see at a glance all their risks and track the work as it gets completed across the organization. Thank you, Andrew, for sharing your story with us! *** Managing...
Do you know everything you need to know about OKRs? OKRs, which stands for Objectives and Key Results, is a widely popular process that companies use to link organizational and team goals to measurable outcomes. OKRs help to answer these two questions: Where do we want to go? How will we measure our efforts to...
Agile Program Management describes the way Agile organizations plan, organize, and execute initiatives in a complex, iterative environment. Agile Program Management builds upon the foundation of Agile project management, and provides guidance for how to coordinate, fund, plan, and execute initiatives at scale. Having the right solution to facilitate Agile Program Management can make or break your initiative. Like with any software...
Scaling Agile has always been a quest to deliver more of the right value, but what happens when it isn’t working the way you’d hoped? How do you determine that your organization isn’t as Agile as it thinks it is? How do you know when your scaling Agile practices need to change? Worse yet, how...
No matter where you are along your Agile journey, you’ll want to block off some time on July 19-22, 2021, to (virtually, of course) attend Agile2021! This four-day event is truly a global celebration of Agile: The program schedule is using a follow-the-sun format, with 200 sessions taking place in three regions around the globe...
A collaborative culture is crucial for building high-performing teams and organizations. Many employees prefer to work collaboratively, but fostering teamwork is not just about making employees happy. Successful collaboration also drives better business results. For example, a study by i4cp, the leading human capital research firm, showed that high-performing organizations are 5.5 times more likely to encourage and reward collaboration....
Part of good project management is successfully managing multiple projects when needed. Most project managers are expected to juggle a mixture of small and large projects at any given time. This is why project managers have earned a reputation for being professional multitaskers. Multitasking sounds good at first, but making it a habit can actually...
Project management is hard work. Even seasoned veterans with years learning how to be a successful project manager have occasional setbacks. Even when you’ve planned and executed things perfectly, the unexpected could happen. How you respond to those problems could be the difference between steering your project on course or watching it come to a...
