Practical knowledge on project management, Kanban and collaboration — from the people behind ORBYLOX.
The kickoff has the worst effort-to-value ratio of any meeting — mostly because it runs as an introduction round and everyone leaves with a different picture.
Risk management deservedly has a bad reputation in small teams: a forty-row table, filled in once and never opened again.
At some point nobody calls any more, the board is not opened again, and six months later nobody knows whether the open items were ever dealt with.
The most common answer to "who is doing this?" is silence — not from unwillingness, but because four people each assume one of the other three was meant.
A status report nobody reads is more expensive than no report at all. The problem is almost always the same: it says what was done instead of where the project stands.
In most plans, milestones are evenly spaced flags with names like "Phase 2 complete" — and they say precisely nothing.
Expectations of an AI assistant are usually too high and too low at once — and the real benefit sits somewhere other than assumed.
When done means something different to everyone, work travels back and forth between columns. The board shows movement, the project makes none.