“Agile marketing” is not a useless jargon term or some kind of crutch. It is a practical way to plan campaigns, ship useful work, learn from evidence, and change course before a rigid plan turns into expensive baggage.
It is also not nearly as intimidating as it might first seem. If your team already drafts, tests, reviews, and improves its work, you have the raw materials. Agile marketing turns those habits into a visible operating system.
Implementing a quality management system (QMS software) is an important investment companies cannot overlook.
One Harvard Business Review study found that companies with an ISO 9001 certification have much higher rates of “corporate survival, sales, employment growth, and wage increases than a matched group of non-adopters.”
For instance, 65% of companies save $25,000 or more in costs within their first year of implementing a QMS.
Adopting a QMS software can also boost efficiency and consistency of work, increase customer satisfaction, raise product value, and reduce unnecessary costs and overall risks.
A good quality management system is all about achieving a quality-driven culture within your company, and as a result, making your product better and marketing it faster. But in order to access these benefits, it’s important that you choose the right QMS solution for you and your company.
In this Process Street article, we’ll be going over the foundation of everything you need to know before choosing your quality management system software.
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According to a survey performed by KPMG and Forrester only 34% of decision-makers say they feel confident in their data …
A sad state of affairs.
Fortunately for the 66% of decision-makers who cannot rely upon their data, there is an answer *drum roll please* . . . the Enlightenment . . . of data.✨
Who would’ve known a school of thought that revolutionized the 17th and 18th centuries could be harvested to optimize our present-day data management?
“The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason.” Dorinda Outram, Panorama of the Enlightenment
Governed by a philosophy of rationality the Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason) made decisions based upon a single source of power or primary source of knowledge. The source of truth and knowledge in this instance was determined by the senses.
Single Source of Truth or SSOT, the focus of this Process Street blog post, also takes the sovereign approach.
However, rather than the senses, the sovereign power for SSOT is a reliance on un-replicated, autonomous, self-contained, and enhanced data.
To find out more about SSOT and how it can enlighten your data processes, keep reading.
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From sprints to cycles, and from product backlogs to …well…no backlog at all. These are just a couple of examples of the differences between Shape Up and agile approaches such as Scrum.
But, what exactly is Shape Up? How does it, when put into practice, differ from Scrum?
Our development team here at Process Street recently made the move from Scrum to Shape Up and I asked them how the two compare. This post outlines the key takeaways from the team and takes a closer look at what Shape Up is as a whole.
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This is a guest post written by Ashley Ferro, a freelance content writer & copywriter specializing in SEO content marketing.
There’s nothing more frustrating to a project manager than witnessing the slow, painful death of a healthy project to the beast known as scope creep. When last minute changes transform their straightforward, A-to-B project plan into a sprawling mess of up-ended sprint plans and gold-plated feature requests, branching out in all directions with no concern for time or resources.
In one extreme example, the head contractor for the extension of a city library ended up actually suing their client in a scope-creep induced rage, claiming that their almost 55-week delay was a direct result of the large number of last minute changes.
In order for a project to be successfully completed on time, the project manager and their team need to agree on a clearly defined project scope before getting started.
However, life isn’t so straight forward and changes to the project will inevitably need to happen.
But additional problems can arise if the changes aren’t dealt with properly.
Scope creep can quietly sneak its way into your project and set your team down an unproductive and self-destructive path, wasting your company’s resources, missing deadlines, weakening team communication and, ultimately, ruining any chance of your project’s success.
So what can you do to avoid this fate, and overcome scope creep once and for all?
In this Process Street article, we’ll be covering everything you need to know scope creep–from what (and who) causes it, to how to manage it, even in an agile environment where change is embraced.
We’ll be covering:
If, however, you’re struggling with planning your own projects and want a quick solution, grab our free Project Request Form Template below!
So, let’s get started with the basics!
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507 blog posts.
That’s how many items our team has created, edited, and published since implementing Scrumban.
Before we set up our system, we were mostly scrabbling to get items together from week-to-week, without knowing what we’d be working on next.
Now, we’re always 3 weeks ahead of our publishing calendar, have built our blog to over 130,000 subscribers, and have expanded our team by over 300%.
That’s why we here at Process Street will take you through this (practically new) method for managing your team and projects.
We’ll cover:
If you want a sneak preview of how we’ve deployed Scrumban, I’ll give you a hint. It’s got something to do with the Sprint Planning checklist below (which you can grab for free!)…
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You’ve heard of the moonwalk. But have you heard of the Gemba Walk?
From a business standpoint, the Gemba Walk is infinitely more useful (though the moonwalk is pretty cool).
Specifically, the Gemba Walk allows businesses to continuously improve how they do things by remedying their processes, procedures, and workflows for recurring tasks. The continual process improvements that Gemba Walking brings helps businesses exponentially – 1 in 4 improvements save time, and 1 in 10 improvements save money.
And this is all achieved by simply stepping back, rather than blindly pushing forward.
Want to know more?
I thought so.
In this post, I’ll tell you what Gemba Walk means, the origins of it, its benefits, and how Process Street can help both remote and physical businesses do the Gemba Walk.
Just read through the following sections to get clued up:
Now, let’s sprint through the rest of the post! ♂️
Bread. Beer. Bacon. *Homer Simpson voice* Mmm, bacon…
No matter what tasty food product your business is creating (or helping to create), a robust food safety management system is essential.
Why?
Because without one, you could be exposing your food to risks and hazards that are both life-threatening for your consumers (420,000 people die each year due to contaminated foods), and business-destroying for you. Plus, by not having a food safety management system in place, you’ll lose pivotal trade opportunities with others in the food industry.
To ensure you have a food safety management system in place – and that it’s up to scratch – there’s FSSC 22000.
In this post, you’ll discover what FSSC 22000 actually is, why it’s so important, how a GFSI recognized certification will benefit you, and how Process Street can help with it all.
Make your way through the following sections to get clued up:
Now, it’s time to taco about FSSC 22000 and food safety!
ISO 9001; you may have heard of it. You may be somewhat afraid of it. And, if you’re reading this article, chances are you’re probably at least somewhat confused about how to actually implement it.
It’s possible you even Googled something like “what is ISO 9001?”. Perhaps you felt you knew at one point, but the important bits never really stuck.
Well, with the 2015 updates to a whole range of ISO standards, it’s a lot less scary.
Before now, if you wanted to implement any ISO standard, you’d have to undertake a lengthy process involving unwieldy paper manuals and cumbersome bureaucratic procedure.
In short, ISO 9001 was hardly agile.
Now, you have far more flexibility to implement ISO 9001 the way that works for you best; with BPM software like Process Street to make things streamlined and simple.
This is why we’re presenting you with this handy overview of ISO 9001, including all of the essentials you need to get started.
We’ll cover how to combine structured compliance with the rapid process improvement of a startup, including:
Before we dive in, here’s some free templates to help you hit the ground running!
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You’ll often hear the question: “Which is better? Kanban or Scrum?” or variations of this eternal deathmatch between two of the most well-established agile methodologies.
People are wasting energy fighting over which methodology trumps another. If you’re an agile organization, you should be placing principle above practice.
It makes a lot of sense to ask questions like “why might I want to use Kanban over Scrum?”, or even “Kanban and Scrum” as opposed to “Kanban vs Scrum”. There are a lot of differences between the two, but fundamentally, they are both agile methodologies, and the principle behind why you might want to use both can be in alignment.
You may even find they can work well together, as part of a unified strategy referred to as Scrumban. You need to consider what approach will work best for your team.
My aim with this article is to approach the question of “Kanban vs Scrum” by clearly presenting both approaches in terms of when, how, and why you might choose to use either of them.
I’ll also talk about the capacity for overlapping Kanban and Scrum approaches, and how some additional tools like Process Street can factor into that equation.
Here’s a breakdown of how we’ll approach comparing “Kanban vs Scrum”:
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