Your path to business agility
“Coach, we’re not ready”, was what we kept saying, just a bunch of lowly high school rookie swimmers on our bus ride to the season’s first meet, the regional swimming invitationals. “Our times aren’t any good, we miss turns all the time, our goggles keep falling off on our starts”. We had tons of reasons...
In this second installment of our Tasty Dog Food Series, we continue to share stories of how we’re using our own product, Planview Viz™, internally to boost our growth and happiness. This time, I spoke to David Slater, our Product Value Stream Lead for our cloud and development infrastructure as a service. David wears two...
“Eating your own dog food,” “ice creaming,” “drinking your own champagne” — whatever you want to call it — refers to a company using its own product, either to test drive it or to show confidence in it. Well, here at Tasktop we have another reason for using our own products: We actually really like...
How the macroeconomics of a cargo ship should have you rethinking your software flow A short while ago, I wrote a blog entitled Innovation Is Compounding Interest: How Legacy Companies Can Compete and Deliver Innovation Like the Cloud-Native Giants. I made the case that cost of production inefficiencies are not isolated to the cost of...
When The Queen’s Gambit debuted on Netflix in October 2020, it was an instant sensation that single-handedly revived interest in a game as old as time. The titular gambit (a calculated move, according to Merriam-Webster) is a cunning chess opening characterized by its attacking prowess, where the player sacrifices a pawn to gain control of...
One of the most pragmatic and effective Lean practices is modestly called “5S”. It’s all about organizing your workspace for efficient and effective utilization. In plain terms, the 5S’s are: Sort: Sort the necessary from the unnecessary. Set in Order: A place for everything and everything in its place. Shine: Clean up what’s left. Standardize:...
There is little doubt that mastering software at scale produces a competitive advantage. The fact that Amazon is now using former J.C Penney and Sears stores as fulfillment centers tells you everything you need to know. Or does it? Amazon’s developers are not 30x better and faster developers than others. However, they treat continuous improvement...
Humans are biologically programmed to mistrust anything that deviates from the status quo. This trait has protected and propagated our existence for centuries. It’s why change is hard, even when backed up by solid reasoning and research, because it challenges norms that have been in place for decades. Take the COVID-19 crisis, for example. There...
If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, you may recall an episode where Elaine experiences an alternate reality of her circle of friends. A “Bizarro World” where polar opposites exist. Elaine meets Kevin, Gene, and Feldman who are kind, generous and lacking all the immature qualities of Jerry, George, and Kramer. For those of us who...
If your customers don’t know what’s slowing them down, or why their Agile and DevOps transformations are hitting a wall, then the Flow Partner Program is for you. A leading U.S healthcare leader doubling its feature velocity. A telecom giant changing its outsourcing strategy to negotiate better terms with its service partners. An online investment...
