BLOGS

As announced on the recent webinar, we are moving forward in our process to make CW Kanban available for Autotask PSA! See the proposed feature list, and submit your interest here: https://www.topleft.team/autotask/ Do...

It’s been way too long since I sent out some Lean/Kanban education! In January I did a post on Visualizing Neglected Work, based on Dominica DeGrandis’s book, which was well received. I have heard from multiple people...

I was speaking last week with an MSP consultant in the UK, and he asked for a demo of creating a Kanban for their desired work process (weekly work sprints). One of their big goals is to avoid strict scheduling/dispatch...

I ask this question daily: How can we optimize workflow?

Push vs Pull Our friend Manuel Palachuck just published a blog post on Push vs Pull that I thought explains it quite clearly. It is a big cultural and organizational change from traditional management methods (dispatch,...

Kanban Implementation Here is a draft of a work-in-progress guideline on implementing Kanban in a Connectwise environment. This is based on our experiences and research so far, and will continue to evolve as we mature...

Effective Daily Huddles One of our own company goals for this quarter is implementing effective daily huddles as part of our Lean/Agile initiatives. Since daily huddles are valuable to any company (whether you use...

Rotting Fruit On the weekend I stumbled upon this YouTube video of how an IT Operations team used Kanban to improve their world for Project and Service delivery. Great ideas and different ways of looking at old...