How to Create Agility in Projects (with Dimitar Karivanov from Kanbanize – The Digital Project manager

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Audio Transcription:
Ben Aston
Lean, Scrum, Scrumban, XP, SAFe, DaD, LeSS, DSDM, Kaizen, Kanban. Do you sound familiar? These are just a few frameworks available for delivering agile. What framework is the best? Listen to this podcast to learn how to create agility in your projects, and the benefits of a Kanban approach.
Ben Aston
Thank you for tuning in. Ben Aston is the founder of Digital Project Manager. Welcome to the DPM podcast. We are on a mission help project managers succeed and help project managers deliver better results. We are here to help you elevate your project management skills. Check out thedigitalprojectmanager.com To learn about our training and resources we offer through membership. Clarizen, a leader in Enterprise Project Management Software and Portfolio Management Software, brought this podcast to you. Clarizen.com is a great place to start your search.
Ben Aston
Today Dimitar Karaivanov is joining me. Dimitar Karaivanov is an engineer and CEO. He’s also the co-founder at Kanbanize. He is a lean thinker. He is a Kanban practitioner. He has a background in software development, process improvement, and software development. He has written several books, including Lean Software Development with Kanban. How can Portfolio Kanban benefit your business? You get the idea. He is passionate about Kanban. Dimitar, welcome to the group!
Dimitar Karaivanov
Ben, thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure to speak with you and your audience. So I look forward to this podcast.
Ben Aston
It was great to meet you. You are obviously passionate about Kanbanize and have built a whole product around it. I am curious about what your role as CEO means. What is a typical day like for you, the CEO and co-founder of Kanbanize.
Dimitar Karaivanov
Yes, it is a lot to wear many hats as the CEO of a company, especially if you are a late startup company. As the product manager, I talk to many customers.
Ben Aston
Right.
Dimitar Karaivanov
We’ll then talk to engineering to simply relay the feedback that we have received from customers. How to engage in enterprise selling Strategy is an important part of what CEOs do. The strategy can also be applied to Kanban. Let’s take a moment to discuss that.
Ben Aston
Yeah, definitely. But, before we get into that, I want to know more about your background. How did you get started in project management software development?
Dimitar Karaivanov
This is how it usually happens out of necessity. I was the change agent in a large German company. We were moving from waterfall processes to agile processes. Around 500 people were involved in the transition. Baghdad’s chrome was the norm for any new agile implementation. We train everyone on scrum. We had about 25 agile teams. However, we found that the teams could deliver some stability, but it was not easy to manage the larger pieces of work, which in our case were features, epics, and other such things. And I figured that we were lacking the tools to manage both the team level and the management/coordination level. Kanbanize was created with the goal of scaling ag.