Team Performance

Learning from failure is the cornerstone of continuous improvement. Perceiving your shortcomings as opportunities will ultimately facilitate an environment of motivation, engag...

Comparing teams’ performance is neither fair nor relevant. I’m very excited to finally get to watch the Olympics this year. Countries all over the world will send their ...

Optimizing individuals’ idle time contradicts the optimization of the flow of work. The cornerstone of achieving predictable delivery systems is aligning teams’ capabili...

If an item is blocked for weeks, do you keep it in the same column and allow it to occupy the WIP in that column, or is it more convenient to move it to a dedicated Kanban bloc...

What you measure shows what you value! If we’re measuring individual performance, that clearly indicates to each person in the team that we value individual performance. If your...

What is the main prerequisite to enabling sustainable predictability and making reliable delivery forecasts? Is it to slice your stories into even pieces? Or, you’ll probably...

Managing people does not lead to improvements in your delivery performance. This is due to one simple reason - time spent at a desk doesn’t necessarily translate into product...

There is a concept called the J curve effect that explains why revolutionary changes usually fail. What’s more, this approach ultimately defines the success threshold of our ...

Continuous forecasting is ultimately the best strategy that you can implement to stay on track and keep your commitments in the long run. When my husband and I moved to Belg...

Managing the flow of work effectively and staying on top of the obstacles that hinder your performance is the cornerstone to avoiding project delays. If you’ve committed t...

Modeling your workflow as a knowledge discovery process stays true to the nature of knowledge work and is fundamental to enabling continuous improvement. If you consider you...

Often, new projects start with a team that just has been brought together, and it’s a constant struggle for managers to make realistic commitments for new teams. When the tea...

Whether you’re managing your projects or working against the wire to meet a deadline, it is crucial to keep tracking your progress so that, if you go off track, you can quick...

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year! We hope that the start of 2021 brings health, joy, prosperity and happiness for you, your family and y...

Story point estimation is a widely known technique that Scrum teams use to plan their work. However, this approach is not objective and has the potential to hinder your perform...

Moving cards backward on your Kanban board is one of the most common antipatterns that agile teams practice. And often, the negative effect it has on your productivity is not o...

When it comes to achieving predictability, it’s the collaborative effort that brings everything together to deliver sustainable results. Sustainable predictability comes with ef...

As it becomes more common for companies to operate virtually, we are learning more about the challenges of managing a remote team and how it impacts our employees. But, even if...