Free Up More Time in Your Day15 Jul 2015

If your initial reaction to this is: "easier said than done", we're happy to offer some quick and useful tips on how to actually squeeze more out of your day. A significant part of getting good at achieving more in less time is finding and keeping an appropriate state of mind. Agreeing...

How to Run a Productive Meeting?09 Jul 2015

How come we hate meetings so much? They take up too much time and leave little time for doing actual work? They have no purpose? We never get to change anything anyway? Because they turn into blame shifting exercises? Whatever your reason, there are easy solutions to keep in mind, when wanting...

Happy Teams - a Short Guide to Change Management02 Jul 2015

Companies have policies and set ways of doing things, it's the natural order of the universe. In order for any new plan, strategy or even a technological approach to be brought into reality, companies need to create a process, that will make execution of the plan possible, easy and...

Basic Examples of a Kanban System 24 Jun 2015

A Kanban system is one that implements a project management method with respect for at least 2 simple rules: a visualization of the work process and a limitation on the amount of work being progressed at any given time. The outcome of following these rules is a visible productivity increase,...

Don't Push. Pull Work Items for Better Results.16 Jun 2015

In all resource materials associated with Agile, the approach is often related to as utilizing a pull method. What does this mean and why is it important? Grab tasks when you're ready Kanban works on an idea of establishing a workflow, a system in which the process stages are represented...

Five Principles of Kanban Boards12 Jun 2015

Did you find yourself wondering why should you introduce new approaches for managing your work load? Let's start with the basic concept of visual management which is simply a visual representation of your work flow and business processes. The practice of visual management allows for managing...

Problems with Kanban?09 Jun 2015

Having observed Kanban implementations over the last decade, there rises a question of why do so many of us fail at making it work? We've tried to find the most common reasons for Kanban failure. Take a look and see what you think? "It's only for linear processes" A belief, that because...

8 Best Tricks to Keep Yourself Motivated02 Jun 2015

A popular approach to staying motivated comes down to following few simple rules. These are the common, fail-safe rules. But if you're not feeling motivated enough to read through the entire list, keep this in mind: there is a difference between what motivates us in long term and how we perform...

Kanban for Game Development20 May 2015

All of our team had been waiting impatiently for "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" game from CD Project Red. As fans of both the game and Kanban, we were also delighted that Kanban Tool had its part in the game's production process. Over the last decade, Kanban has proven a great way to develop games,...

Why Going Agile Equals Visualization of Workflow?13 May 2015

Running a business along with an Agile methodology may be seen as a thing of fashion, correct. But there is also real value behind it – with smoother organization, and better distribution of tasks, achieved by running the show by self-organizing, cross-functional teams – goals tend to be achieved...