Featured Resource: Overcoming Inefficiencies in Multiple Work Management Systems

Large enterprises are traditionally organized by functional silos as opposed to the end-to-end flow of delivery across teams. However, because they are managed to optimize vertically for specific outcomes, the multiple work management systems used in these environments can create long-term inefficiencies.

In this week’s resource, (download here) we’ll be focusing on enterprise practitioners and management leaders who have multiple work management systems that their teams deal with every day. In the following 5 sections, we hope to show how making work visible can help enterprises break down those inefficiencies.

• THE PROBLEM: We’ll begin by exploring the inefficiencies of a multiple work management system, including unplanned work, conflicting priorities, and communication breakdowns between business people and IT people.
• SOLUTION-GUIDING PRINCIPLES: In this section, we suggest some guiding principles to help make work visible so that others can see key risks and problems.
• COUNTER MEASURES: Next, we will describe a number of the approaches that have been used by different companies to address the problems caused by lack of visibility of work across the entire value stream for a product.
• BENEFITS: We’ll dive into how achieving better work visibility can also improve flow and system mechanics, as well as gain better customer visualization of capacity, velocity, and IT priorities.
• CASE STUDIES: Finally, we’ll look at two separate cases of how making work visible has had lasting impacts on those organizations.