Many organizations today are spending a lot of time and resources to try and create conditions for an optimal experience at work. While some teams have made the transition to ensuring 'Flow' in everything...

With the digital disruption of business models and whole industries, business executives and process owners are faced with a variety of transformation challenges. The need to ensure alignment between strategic, tactical and operational work...

Ideas for fulfilling customer needs can be generated much faster than they can actually be realized. This is the source of much tension between the organization and its customers, but also within the organization...

Ideally, Agile teams perform their work with zero interruptions. There would be no requests for 'Urgent! It's a matter of life or death' functionality. But, in our world, interruptions are as common and frequent...

Artificial Intelligence is impacting all industries. Everyone seems to be talking about Machine Learning nowadays (check 'ML' on Google Trends). And our realm of Project Management and Software Development finds itself right in the...

This month's newsletter features Story Points, Estimates and Due Dates. And a decent primer on the ever controversial, at least in the Agile Software development world, #noestimates movement :)   Story Points Revisited Does...

A recent study reported that 37% of the developers they surveyed used Scrum, 21% had an Agile-waterfall hybrid and 20% used Kanban. Another interesting finding was that the adoption of Scrum, Kanban and other...

This month's newsletter covers the topic of Kanban, providing insightful articles on applying Kanban to a traditional SDLC process, using Upstream Kanban for backlog grooming, aligning strategy to execution, and examining Estimation of software...

In today's world, decisions are increasingly augmented, and in many cases actually made, by an AI/ ML system. The availability of cheap computing power and increased access to state-of-the-art algorithms and their implementation has...

Agile works. We've known it for some time. But, most stories about its success revolve around software development and how it has helped teams in IT. In this month's newsletter we feature some articles...