The Flow Framework

Learn about the Flow Framework®, a structured, prescriptive approach to Value Stream Management in software delivery organizations. It identifies where work slows down so that bottlenecks can be addressed and equips technology leaders to effectively communicate with business stakeholders when setting priorities and measuring outcomes.

2 Things You Can Start Doing Today to Improve Team Engagement and Get Better Business Results

Organizations often struggle to balance top-down direction vs. team autonomy. Too much top-down directive and teams can quickly feel micromanaged, becoming discouraged and disengaged. Leaders, meanwhile, struggle to allow complete autonomy, fearing the sheer increase in variation between tools, processes and practices will make it impossible to collaborate and manage products across the organization. There...

Reignite Your SAFe® Journey with Flow Metrics and Program Predictability Measures

“Business agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions” – Scaled Agile  Kate Chajka has been working on the frontline of Agile transformations for over 15 years. To say she has seen it all is an understatement....

Have You Lost Sight of Your Agile Transformation?

In a time when business agility is legacy-defining, today serves as the perfect time for technology leaders to revise their Agile practice. For many organizations, the ability to absorb and adapt to the changes caused by the pandemic is a leading indicator of how Agile they really are. Despite heavy investment in the practice and...

How We Built the Case for Application Replatforming Using Flow Metrics

In this third installment of our Tasty Dog Food Series, we continue to share stories of how we’re using our own product, Tasktop Viz™, internally to boost our growth and happiness. This time, I spoke to Jeff McCollum, our Product Value Stream Lead for Tasktop Hub, who told me how he used Tasktop Viz and...

Make Your OKRs Customer-Centric and Let the Value Flow

OKR adoption is accelerating. At Tasktop, we’ve seen faster take-up in the last year than in the last half a decade. The OKR software market mirrors that growth; it’s projected to grow by 13.73% CAGR by 2027 to reach $1946.88M. And only this month, OKR-tracking platform WorkBoard announced $75 million in funding. Regardless of market...

Remember that Time the Suez Canal Proved Your SDLC Point?

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...