What Makes a Responsible Agile Team?31 Mar 2016

There is a great true story of a ship captain, who realized his team were neither meeting their full capacity nor were as effective for the ship works as they could. Once each of the team was given full responsibility for what they did - their performance took a completely different turn, making...

Kanban Tool is now available in 7 languages!23 Mar 2016

Good news: In response to growing multinational interest in Kanban Tool, the service is now available in no less than 7 languages! The choice - aside from English - includes: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian and Polish. To use your language while working in Kanban Tool, just...

Are We Biologically Programmed to Work in Agile Methodology?16 Mar 2016

Our brain is a complex organ, which sometimes can be subjected to tricks that will make it work better for our purpose. Find out if and why are we really well designed to work in a truly Agile way. Willpower To do anything, we need to want to do it first. But willpower is a very precious...

Project-Based & Team-Based Organizational Models08 Mar 2016

Would you rather your team to be working on projects - focus on one thing at a time until it's done, or for each person to have their own, assigned role, doing their thing at their own pace for specific goals? Both seem to have their advantages and faults, also - one is bound to be more...

What's Halting your Business Growth?02 Mar 2016

No business will grow on its own. It may sometimes seem that all in your team are working long hours, therefore the business must be headed in the right direction and continue to develop. But it takes no business genius to know, that it's not how many hours you put in, but what you're focused...

Can we Ever Beat Procrastination at Work?24 Feb 2016

Understanding that if it's just your nature to put things off, and that if you lack motivation or need to make progress whichever way you can - the tendency would really be to answer: "NO, you cannot beat it". There is a million things you can try to make yourself NOT procrastinate, but if...

Can Agile Projects Turn into Agile Companies?16 Feb 2016

When thinking of organizations and the ways in which they change and evolve, the main thing to keep in mind is: organizations are made of people. Hence, if it's people making the teams and teams making the companies, it should not be too difficult to make an entire organization Agile. It's...

Kaizen: Make Time for Improvements09 Feb 2016

Part of running an Agile process is taking advantage of the continuous improvement opportunity, meaning making the process and product better with time. So, simplifying the process while increasing your response time and product / service quality. Some of these changes can be introduced...

Agile Kanban for Research Work20 Jan 2016

Research work, however fascinating and enjoyable, can be tough to organize into a structured process. And lack of a process more often than not leads to decrease in motivation, waste and difficulty in reaching a sense of accomplishment. It's fair to say that work, that has been forged into an...

Time vs. Energy Management13 Jan 2016

What if the traditional time management techniques are not enough? Once you've delegated all things you could have, resigned from doing those that you could let go of (non important and not urgent - hence redundant), and prepared a general schedule on how you're going to go about doing the...