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Adaptive Project and Work Management in the Hybrid World

Extending Portfolio Kanban with Enterprise Services Planning

Transformation approach using the enterprise services view, balancing system demand with capability, planning and prioritization using a visual decision framework, using decision support analytics like probabilistic forecasting and cost of delay.

The Difference Between The Kanban Method and Scrum

Introduction

The Yin-Yang of Productivity

This year’s Nobel for Economics has gone to the Behavioural Economist Richard Thaler. Richard is a Distinguished Professor at the Chicago Booth Business School. His big work is the influence of clues and society on individual decision making and actions.

Scrum or Kanban for Application Support teams?

Recently, there was an interesting problem posed on a project management discussion board. The questioner asked –

Scrum and Kanban Revisited

Introduction

How do you “do” Scrumban?

In a recent post on a technical forum, a Dev manager had the question (paraphrased here) – My organization wants to operate in a Kanban way but maintain the structure of sprints and burn down charts to keep track of progress. Is it ok to do? Is Scrumban the correct methodology? If so, what is the best way to implement it?

The Intrigue – and the Universality – of Kanban

It has been abundantly clear that in the last 3-4 years, the world of Agile has gradually come to be occupied by Kanban. While there has been a fair bit of the religious battle about Scrum vs. Kanban – which, while doing injustice to both Scrum and Kanban, has certainly helped to keep Kanban under the spotlight – the fact is that most consultants, coaches, and practitioners have been far more pragmatic and sanguine about it.

Top 11 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Are you new to Kanban? Or did you just build your first Kanban Board? Or already a Kanban expert? Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals.

Enterprise Transformation with Integrated Portfolio Kanban

Why this critical visual data integration can fail, tooling and features that need to be built in for success.

Visual Management of Enterprise Services

What are the merits of a Kanban visual integration layer and the necessary capabilities to deliver on this integration.

SwiftEASe – Relentless Improvement in Value Delivery with Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®)

We are excited to announce the release of SwiftEASe in the recently concluded SAFe® Summit in Texas, held from 2 – 6 October 2017. With this Digité launches a new, tightly integrated tool for planning and managing the entire software delivery process based on the SAFe® framework.

7 Factors for running an effective Kanban Replenishment Meeting

In a blog post called Kanban Cadences, David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. Some of these were already identified in his original blue book, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, some were identified later and put together in this post.