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“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...
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...
Today’s enterprises are increasingly looking to the PMO to boost the bottom line. Inadequate resource planning practices make it difficult to quickly deliver innovative products, services, and customer experiences. “The risk of poor capacity is the inability to resource projects. We have a ‘need for speed’ and need the right resources at the right time...
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...
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...
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 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 —...
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...
Meetings are one of the most important, yet also maligned aspects of the professional world. Some productivity gurus suggest cutting them down and running them like a 5-minute team talk, others propose performing them standing up and many more suggest banning them altogether. While calls for such draconian steps are probably wide of the mark,...
No transition from milestone-driven work to Agile project management is without its challenges. The Agile methodology is known for empowering teams to work more efficiently and effectively, but these results seldom happen overnight. That’s because making the switch to Agile project management isn’t a one-time action, it’s a journey that requires the support of executives,...
