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Project managers are constantly balancing short-term responsiveness and long-term strategic planning. Striving for maximum agility by…
Nave
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Project managers are constantly balancing short-term responsiveness and long-term strategic planning. Striving for maximum agility by neglecting any plans and processes can result in miscommunication and uneasy customers. At the other extreme, trying to plan every detail too early in the process is equally dangerous.
The power of Kanban is that it deals with risk quickly. Kanban lets you make sure that the most important items are accomplished first and the team is not distracted by low-priority items.
Frustration with top-down planning gave birth to the Agile methodologies. The focus is on accomplishing the most important tasks as soon as we have enough data to do so – this is how Kanban operates. Still, humans need security to feel safe. Telling a customer that she has no idea what her team is doing next week because it hasn’t been planned yet is a project management faux pas.
So how can we wrap the high risk and lack of details into a human, comprehensible and agile project plan? The answer is in the flexibility of a Kanban roadmap → https://getnave.co/4jtGBDW
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