Leading the conversation on digital connected work
De viktigaste siffrorna om sysselsättningsgraden i Storbritannien visar att landet upplever den lägsta arbetslösheten sedan man började registrera den. Detta trots de utmaningar som de internationella handelsspänningarna och Brexit-dramat som Storbritannien har stått inför under de senaste åren innebär. Det faktum att arbetskraften i Storbritannien äntligen börjar få en verklig...
Whether you’re aware of it or not, most of your waking hours are filled up with tasks — both big and small ones. These tasks can be anything: from driving to work every morning, to fixing yourself a healthy meal or reviewing a document for work. No matter the type of job you’re performing, it’s...
Finansieringspraxis - det sätt på vilket företag fördelar budgetar internt - är ganska viktigt: Det avgör till stor del vilka projekt som prioriteras, hur teamen är strukturerade och hur avkastningen mäts. Om din organisation försöker implementera smidighet i stor skala kommer du snabbt att upptäcka att det finns begränsningar för traditionella, projektbaserade budgetar och deras tillhörande finansieringsmetoder...
Resistance to change isn’t always just hard-nosed recalcitrance. Most of the time, it comes from a place of strategic concern. Consider the questions: Is this really the best use of our resources considering how tight things are already? How can we be certain that the payoff is going to be worth the investment? Are we...
“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...
Dagens företag ser i allt högre grad till att PMO:n kan öka resultatet. Bristfällig resursplanering gör det svårt att snabbt leverera innovativa produkter, tjänster och kundupplevelser. "Risken med dålig kapacitet är att man inte kan anslå resurser till projekt. Vi har ett "behov av snabbhet" och behöver rätt resurser vid rätt tidpunkt...
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...
