Strategic Business Agility

Optimizando la gestión del flujo de trabajo: La poderosa combinación de OKR y Kanban

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En el mundo empresarial actual, las organizaciones están constantemente buscando formas de mejorar la eficiencia operativa y alinear sus esfuerzos con los objetivos estratégicos. Dos herramientas populares que pueden complementarse de manera efectiva son los OKR (Objectives and Key Results) y Kanban. En este artículo, exploraremos cómo combinar estas dos herramientas puede impulsar la productividad, …

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Three Ways Kanban Helps Us Solve Complex Problems

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The way to solve complex problems is to break it down into smaller pieces, start with what we know or more often, a hypothesis around an assumption we are making, and then assess the outcome to decide what to do next. Agile frameworks and techniques like Scrum, XP, Feature Driven Development, Crystal, etc. are designed …

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Kanban + Lean UX = The Future of Agility

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Box 1 frames the business problem to be solved; one could use the business problem template, the elevator pitch template, or free format. Box 2 is specific about the percentage or numeric improvement achieved if the problem was solved; the pirate metrics AARRR (#acquisitions, #activations, $revenue, %retention, #referrals) metrics are often used. Box 2 metrics …

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Kanban Adoption in Nigeria; A Frontier Worth Exploring

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Nigeria, like other nations, is an evolving work environment. A nation of over 200 million people (UNDP, 2021). Interesting in her demographic is her workforce. From United Nations Population Fund statistics, over 50% of her population in the workforce is young and vibrant. The question then is, how can the Agile framework; Kanban, facilitate the delivery of value for Nigerian organizations and businesses? To answer this …

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Don’t Be a Ditka

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Or, Can You Prioritize Your Way to Optimizing Value?Or, CD3 is Bollocks TL;DR: CD3 is often touted as a prioritization/sequencing method used to help an organization maximize its value delivery. However, CD3 requires a specific set of assumptions to be true in order to provide an optimal result. Those assumptions are simply not valid in …

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Conway Is Killing You And Little Is Helping

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Conway’s Law In 1968, Melvin Conway wrote the paper “How Do Committees Invent”. One of his observations in that paper (among numerous interesting ones) was declared Conway’s Law. Conway’s Law states — Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of …

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