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As I heard at a ConnectWise Share (User Group) event recently from Sea-Level Operations, if a computer shop received 8 new computers a day and threw out 3, they would go out of business real quick. In the service...

Here’s a quick heads-up about changes at CW Kanban that will make your life better. Do share this post with your team members so they too could benefit from these updates!

In February, Wim hosted a joint webinar with Manuel Palachuk. We covered the Mindset, Methods, and Tools for Agile Service Delivery with many in attendance. Click here to request the recording and access the slidedecks,...

It’s time to add some colour to CW Kanban! Over the last year we have been syncing more and more data about your ConnectWise tickets. This has helped identify ticket neglect, blocks, or resource mis-management. Now that...

Kanban has been updated for most of our clients with 3 highly requested features,

It’s been way too long since I sent out some Lean/Kanban education! In January I did a post on Visualizing Neglected Work, based on Dominica DeGrandis’s book, which was well received. I have heard from multiple people...

Trello vs TopLeft Visual If you're an MSP with ConnectWise PSA, HaloPSA or Datto Autotask already struggling with 180+ open tickets and projects running 30% over budget, you know you need a better way. But with stressed...

I was speaking last week with an MSP consultant in the UK, and he asked for a demo of creating a Kanban for their desired work process (weekly work sprints). One of their big goals is to avoid strict scheduling/dispatch...

In an earlier blog post, Wim offered some important information on how to visualize our work. Check out the full post here, but here are some of the related highlights of that post: Start as simple as you can but no...

I ask this question daily: How can we optimize workflow?

Recently, Wim Kerkhoff, our CEO, was a guest on Todd Kane’s podcast Evolved Management Consulting. Wim shared his thoughts on the Kanban methodology as well has his experience developing the CWKanban product for...

Push vs Pull Our friend Manuel Palachuck just published a blog post on Push vs Pull that I thought explains it quite clearly. It is a big cultural and organizational change from traditional management methods (dispatch,...

Kanban Implementation Here is a draft of a work-in-progress guideline on implementing Kanban in a Connectwise environment. This is based on our experiences and research so far, and will continue to evolve as we mature...

Your Engineers Are Drowning (And Your Clients Know It) Are you watching your best technicians burn out while tickets pile up faster than your team can close them? Is critical knowledge trapped in individual engineers'...