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How to Visualize any ConnectWise Process

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...

19 Feb

Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

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

17 Jan

Understanding the difference between PUSH and PULL

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,...

1 Jun

Kanban Implementation Roadmap for Beginners

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...

18 May

How to run Effective Daily Huddles

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...

8 May

Top 5 reasons why people take on more work then they have capacity to do

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...

1 May
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