Introducing the GamePlan System
Business Owners are Busy People! Dump “Pie in the Sky” 5 Year Business Plans We developed a routine for getting more done faster using the “Work Smarter, not Harder” mantra We were “National Small Business of the Year” and appeared 4 times in the “National 100 Fastest Growing Businesses” list using this approach This is […]
Take Advantage of Agile / Scrum / Kanban to Increase Productivity
In a smaller business there is always plenty to do and many demands on a managers most limited resource; time. Often the owners time is the major bottleneck on the growth of the business (see the introductory article to Theory of Constraints). Plenty of other businesses have struggled with prioritising time before you and several techniques that are very similar have evolved. The three best known of these are named Agile / Scrum / Kanban. Various references cite improvements in team productivity ranging from 25% to 300% by using these methods. This article introduces these concepts and a way of using a free software app named Trello to manage the process. A mix of Yellow and Blue Belt introductory material.