Lean Budgeting, Part 1 : Les limites des budgets traditionnels basés sur les projets

Les pratiques de financement - la façon dont les entreprises allouent les budgets en interne - sont assez importantes : elles déterminent en grande partie quels projets sont prioritaires, comment les équipes sont structurées et comment le retour sur investissement est mesuré. Si votre organisation tente de mettre en œuvre l'agilité à l'échelle, vous découvrirez rapidement que les budgets traditionnels, basés sur des projets, et les pratiques de financement qui y sont associées présentent des limites...

Flow Load (charge du flux) : la demande est-elle supérieure à la capacité ?

“Too much WIP is the enemy of productivity,” – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible, and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop The happiness and engagement of the people who plan, build and deliver software has a direct correlation on the productivity and quality of their work. Combined with the rise of burnout in IT...

5 Raisons de poursuivre une carrière de PM

Considering potential career paths – either when starting out or looking to switch lanes – can be a difficult process. There are many variables to consider, and often too many unknowns involved to ever make a perfect decision. The more information you have, the better, helping you to see how you would fit into a...

Comment réalisez-vous la planification des ressources en tant que PMO avisé ?

Les entreprises d'aujourd'hui se tournent de plus en plus vers le PMO pour améliorer leurs résultats. Des pratiques inadéquates de planification des ressources font qu'il est difficile de fournir rapidement des produits, des services et des expériences client innovants. "Le risque d'une capacité insuffisante est l'incapacité de financer des projets. Nous avons un "besoin de vitesse" et nous avons besoin des bonnes ressources au bon moment...

A Day in the Life of… a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead

Meet Jordi Böhme! He’s one of our Senior Software Engineers and Team Leads who works remotely in Germany. We spoke to him about working in a different timezone and the first time he ever saw a skunk.  How do you start your day before work? Probably very different from most other Tasktopians; I’m a remote...

Why It’s OK to Say “I Don’t Know” (& How to Do It Productively)

Having to say “I don’t know” can elicit feelings of anxiety and inadequacy at work, like all of your hard work will be for nothing if you can’t answer whatever specific question has been thrown at you. This may stem from childhood, when not knowing what the teacher had just mentioned five minutes before would...

3 Façons de cultiver l'engagement des employés par le crowdsourcing

Are the benefits of employee crowdsourcing in large organizations a myth, or is crowdsourcing a sound strategy to invest in? Does crowdsourcing for ideas to improve one’s business lead to employee engagement, or is it a waste of time? Based on the results demonstrated at Rogers and TELUS – two of the largest telecom operators...

Flow Time – How Fast are We Delivering Business Value?

Flow time doesn’t stop the clock just because the weekend rolls around. What flow time does do is help quantify the probability of completing x percent of work in so many days – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop  Every second counts in software delivery. That’s why Flow Time —...

Scrum : Comment prioriser les éléments du backlog

During a sprint planning session, items are chosen from the product backlog to be worked on in the sprint. However, not all product backlog items (PBI) are created equal, and the prioritization process for what will be chosen is essential for the smooth running and eventual success of the sprint. PBIs that meet certain criteria...