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Kanban Vs. Scrum

When you need an efficient way to manage your team, sometimes simple is best. Kanban and scrum boards improve productivity by giving your team the tools they need to collaborate.

Scrum has a few more features than Kanban to help your team work effectively and streamline workflow. However, because they’re so similar in setup, both make for an excellent solution to streamlining your team’s projects and ensuring everyone stays on the same page.

Kanban Pros and Cons

Pros

Short learning curveVisual interfaceAdaptable to project changes

Cons

No work timeframesRequires industry stability

Scrum Pros and Cons

Pros

Timed work sprintsTransparent systemPromotes focus with tasks and roles

Cons

Sprints can’t overlap with each otherLess suitable for long-term projects

Project Complexity: Scrum Wins

Scrum allows you to break longer projects into shorter pieces. It divides complex tasks into more manageable bites to reduce team overwhelm.

With timed sprints, a scrum board like Zoho sets a timeline for each individual piece. That way, your team can more closely estimate project completion dates and work toward goals with designated tasks. Plus, if you have a hard time predicting the finer details of your project’s future, the scrum methodology lets you make changes and handle uncertai… Read More

Successful But Unhappy? Time to Start Exploring Your Options

So you have all the trappings and wrappings of success.

You have a career that pays a high salary and you have climbed and clawed your way up the corporate ladder. You have the prestige car, holidays in Europe and a fine house. 

But you’re unhappy. 

You got to the top of the ladder and it’s leaning against the wrong wall. 

And instead of arriving, you’re now thinking of leaving. 

You’ve always wanted to do something that fulfills you but you feel empty. 

And you’re constantly saying to yourself, “There has to be more to life.”

Sometimes you dream about running away with the circus. 

To live in another universe. 

The great pandemic provided us the time to reflect. During the “great isolation” we thought about our lifestyles, our careers and life design. We started asking the bigger questions like:

“What should I do with my life?”

Do you have the courage to explore a different path?

A recent article in the Harvard Business Review, examines what rose out of the empty space the “Great Isolation” created. When we were banished to our homes to work remotely, we had time to think unfettered. We were no longer lost in the chaos of a modern living.