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Budgeting is a wasteful and destructive relic from the past

Let’s say Mike, a department head at a big corporation, is working on the budget for his department. He estimates the revenue by looking at figures from previous years, he forecasts that his department should be able to grow…

How to fix 90% of problems at work

Applying the first three core practices of Kanban will fix 90% of issues we have in knowledge work. Kanban is an approach to incremental, evolutionary process change for organizations.

Yelling improves employee performance

If you yell at resources (e.g. people) when they perform poorly, they will perform better next time.

This is easy to demonstrate. Take a normal 6-sided die and throw it. When you get a 1 or a 2, yell at the die and make it understand how…

The most destructive misunderstanding in today’s work life

Utilization refers to the amount of time spent doing actual work during working hours. A high level of utilization means no slack, few breaks and a constant sense of urgency.

Controlling a project leads to poor results

In 1982 Tom DeMarco published a book called Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation. The book is the source for the famous quote: “You can’t control what you can’t measure”.