Kanban in Organizations Part II
Kanban Core Practices
This article provides managers in service companies with an insight into how to use the Kanban method to tackle organizational difficulties. In the previous article Kanban in Organizations Part I you got to know the values and basic principles of Kanban. The basic principles describe how you should approach change in companies. Kanban's six core practices show you how to continuously provoke change. They also define important activities to manage and improve Kanban systems.
The basis for this article are the books „Essential Kanban Condensed“ by David J. Anderson and Andy Carmichael and „Kanban from the Inside“ von Mike Burrows.
What project managers can learn from Pixar
A book review on Ed Catmull's "Creativity, Inc."
Toys who were magically brought to life, a rat cooking in a French restaurant and monsters that scare children for a living. In their movies, Pixar has introduced the world to a plethora of creative characters. While keeping an extraordinary level of creativity, the company does not lack in terms of financial success either. Its most recent animation film, Incredibles 2, sold more tickets in the first week than any animation film has ever before. No other company in the film industry has even come close to the same level of constant success that Pixar, as a part of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, is having since the release of Toy Story in 1995.
Read more...Welcome 2019!
First of all I like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year, all the best, luck, success and above all health for 2019.
The turn of the year is the time for the project manager to define his forecasts. Today I join this tradition. At ProjectWizards we have something big in the pipeline and I can't wait to tell you!
Read more...Merry Christmas
We will be back after a short break
Merry Christmas from ProjectWizards. Watch out for Santa Merlin and his Bar-Deers.
Read more...Hammock task in Merlin Project
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects? Then you already know how to schedule activities by work or duration and dependencies.
What if you need a Hammock task? The start and end date of a hammock activity (also called 'stretch task') is controlled by other activities and not by its own duration.
This is an example on how to configure a Hammock activity in Merlin Project:
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