It is often hard for a management team to get an up to date overview of the company’s projects. The projects tend to slip through the grip because the checkpoints are few and far between, the projects generate largely “invisible” results, and resources go in and out of projects over time.
Continue reading “Project portfolio health check – how do the projects perform and how are the resources utilized?”Pulse when development is distributed in many locations
Pulse in a company with one R&D location will have one pulse room. But what to do when there are many locations around the world where development is done? Unlike a hierarchical line organization, Pulse is an organizational model that can easily handle “multi-site” situations.
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The Agile Pulse App promotes behaviours that shorten development time and maximize throughput.
Continue reading “Agile Pulse App is now live”Agile Governance of Strategy & Development
For a business to be agile, it isn’t enough to have agile projects. You also need agile governance that can speed up decision making, deal with overload, queues and deviations, and enable you to work continuously on your strategies.
Continue reading “Agile Governance of Strategy & Development”Product development as an adaptive walk
Product development as an adaptive walk is a new way to manage uncertainty. Predictions far into the future are highly uncertain. Pulse support short lead time.
Continue reading “Product development as an adaptive walk”Scale-free networks in Pulse
The best way to create cross-functional work is with the help of a fractal, scale-free network. This kind of an organization is fast and agile.
Continue reading “Scale-free networks in Pulse”Effective resource management in projects
Resource shortages are one of the most common problems I encounter when analyzing a project business. This is also the easiest problem to solve. Not only is it simple, the solution is also largely free. All businesses have a hidden resource pool that is just waiting to be put to use.
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A lot of people who have worked with projects have experienced the same thing: downtime. You have to wait for people to get back to you, wait for results and wait for decisions to be made. On top of that other actors are waiting for you to finish your task that you can’t finish because you’re waiting for something or someone.
Continue reading “Visual Management”What is Pulse?
What is Pulse? Pulse has daily stand-up meetings, visual management and planned demonstrations that give feedback. Pulse encompasses the whole organization.
Continue reading “What is Pulse?”Visual structure for decision making
The visual decision-making structure is the foundation of an agile network organization. The organization is visualized through the network of Pulse meetings in the Pulse room.
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