The art of Communication

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then...

Are you working in a team or in a group of people?

Often we see people working together. When we are introduced to them, they present themselves as a team. We think also that they are a team. However, when looking closer at these people we see that they have different goals, operating on different agendas, level of...

How to reduce waste by increasing your speed

When we estimate the time needed to get something done in a process we usually divide the number of things to do by the average rate of completion. We call the resulting number Cycle Time. With other words, Cycle Time is the average amount of time it takes to get a...

How to build scalable teams

When observing IT development teams we still see that many companies are still using Component teams as the main way of doing Software development. Component team is a team of people working with only one component of the whole system. They become experts of this...