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Whether you’re still finding your way around your Kanban board or you’ve been practicing Kanban for a while, you’ve likely stumbled upon the phrase ‘continuous improvement.’ At first glance, the meaning of this phrase seems self-evident: It’s just about aiming to always improve, right? Yes—it’s true that the goal of continuous improvement is to help...
“There will be a time when I will be President of the US and I will remember… any founder that didn’t have the capacity to understand culturally what we’re doing.” Kanye West There’s no doubt that Kanye knows how to communicate through his music — he has numerous accolades and tens of millions of sold...
Scaling Agile helps organizations change the way they plan and deliver value to the customer. It allows them to shift to market changes more rapidly and ultimately helps to prime the organization for embracing new ways of working. All of these benefits can help to increase the self-sufficiency of teams across the organization while increasing...
Stakeholders have a major effect on projects, which is no big surprise seeing as projects also affect them, as we’ve looked at previously. However, not all stakeholders perform the same roles or want the same things. This is why stakeholder management is so crucial to ensuring that relationships are maintained and support for the project...
The business agility definition is more complex than you might think. Yes, it means that your business is dynamic in response to change. But you can’t be so reactionary that you abandon all stability. Read on to learn more. What is Agility? Just a few decades ago, businesses were built to last. The successful companies...
By 2022, millennials and Generation Z will comprise 75 percent of the global workforce. For employers, the influx of younger workers means adapting to different expectations. Millennials, for example, expect to collaborate across geographies and time zones to get things done—and they expect to spend a considerable amount of their day using collaboration software. But...
Organizational culture is defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. When implemented holistically and sustainably, Lean methods have been shown to promote a healthy organizational culture. This isn’t a coincidence: Rooted in behavioral psychology, Lean methods emphasize respect for others, effective...
Over the past months, a number of Fortune 100 customers have been testing Tasktop’s new product, Planview Viz, to implement the Flow Framework™. We’re delighted to announce a limited release to a community near and dear to us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit – learn more from our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten. Day...
Halloween is just around the corner, which means that kids are eagerly looking forward to an evening of costumes and candy — and grown-ups are in store for a flurry of Halloween-themed movies that range from terrifying to heartwarming. However, this year after the final trick-or-treater has made the rounds and you’re ready to plunk...
Gene Kim’s opening remarks to a DevOps Enterprise Summit are always a welcome tonic for the IT community. His honest and earnest insights serve as an annual reminder to “keep up the good fight” in the perpetual challenge to help traditional organizations to survive and thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption. As ever, it’s...
