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Ob in agilen Teams oder in der traditionellen Softwareentwicklung: Das Projektmanagement steht und fällt mit der Kommunikation. Doch gerade in ...

The art of successful project management is just that. There will always be tons of ... We handle multiple projects going on at the same time. There are ...

Özgür Ergel hat u.a. auf den Magdeburger Developer Days seinen Vortrag “Wurzeln der Agilität” gehalten, in dem er versucht hat die unterschiedlichen kulturellen, technischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Einflüsse aufzuarbeiten, die die heutige agile Softwareentwicklung geprägt haben. ...

Zunächst einmal: Sie sollten sich fragen, ob Sie überhaupt Ihre Produktivität verdreifachen wollen. Wozu sollten Sie das tun? Was soll das bringen? Ein Mehr an Lebensqualität? ...

Als kleine Fingerübung entstand dieses Erklärvideo über die Entstehung von Projekten. ...

Vor einigen Monaten durfte ich die „Agile Transformation“ (also eine Veränderung in Richtung Agilität) in einem Konzern begleiten. Eines Tages – erste Teams arbeiteten produktfokussiert, kundenorientiert, selbstorganisiert und damit recht erfolgreich – kam die Frage auf, ob es nicht auch „Agile Karrierepfade“ (also Karrierepfade für Mitarbeitende in agilen Rollen), insbesondere für Scrum Master und Product Owner geben müsse. ...

Alle reden von Digitalisierung, Automatisierung, New Work, Agiles Arbeiten, Transformation. Alle wissen, dass sich etwas verändern muss. ...

OKR sind ein gutes Mittel, um einem Team oder einem Unternehmen dabei zu helfen, Ziele so zu setzen, dass jeder einzelne Mitarbeiter in die gleiche Richtung strebt. ...

These days, Agile has grown beyond the IT sector and is being successfully applied in marketing, sales management, logistics, corporate governance, and more. ...

Das „Agile Manifest“ beschreibt passfähiges Arbeiten, um Wert in immer komplexer werdenden Umgebungen zu generieren. Es ist allerdings nicht passfähig, um Menschen genügend Hilfe zu bieten, um dieses passfähige Arbeiten zu erlernen. ...

An essential element in Lean thinking is Kaizen. Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement or change for the better. It’s a tool to make work easier, safer, and more productive by studying a process, identifying waste, and applying small incremental improvements that ensure the highest quality. ...

Kaizen is a Lean manufacturing tool that improves quality, productivity, safety, and workplace culture. Kaizen focuses on applying small, daily changes that result in major improvements over time. ...

When an organization is beginning a continuous improvement and Lean journey, the leaders must be prepared to change their behaviors. ...

I was asked during an interview, “How do you respect your customers when all you need is for them to make a purchase?” My thoughts went beyond customers to respect in general. The word ‘compassion’ came to mind. ...

Führung bedeutet schon lange nicht mehr Kommando und Kontrolle. Sie ist kein Privileg, sondern Dienstleistung. ...

Heute gebe ich Ihnen meine 3 Tipps, damit Ihre Teamsitzungen noch effizienter und erfolgreicher werden. ...

Verrückt ist das mit der Digitalisierung. Und das meine ich im ureigenen Wortsinne: verrückt. Nicht mehr an seinem Platz. Wir haben den Fokus verloren, worum es bei der Digitalisierung geht und wir überlassen, ganz nebenbei, die Gestaltung der Welt allein den Nerds ...

In unserer Wirtschaft hält sich die Idee des Wettbewerbs, der zu stetem Fortschritt führe, immer noch tapfer. Ohne Wettbewerb keine Motivation fortzuschreiten, so tönt es seit ich denken kann. ...

Doing business in Mumbai is not the same as in Milan, which is why working in today’s global economy requires a deep understanding of cultural differences. ...

Defining your project is a vital task. And there are a lot of things to remember. Fortunately, we have some handy acronyms: RAID, CAD, and DCARI. ...

If you are a seasoned project management professional like me (20 years) who is transitioning into agile, you will find that this article aims to give answers when you’re trying to make sense of what it means to be an Agile Project Manager (PM). ...

Papers on Root Cause Analysis for System of Systems Projects ...

Despite a widespread acceptance of projects that end up behind deadlines and over budget, there is a surprising lack of motivation to change how projects are organized or to take preventative measures. ...

SPaMCAST 552 features our essay on the idea of “fit for purpose” and its impact on the definition of quality. ...

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. He wanted to know what a large geographically distributed team might do. ...

We recently watched a heated debate between our client and two of his direct reports. Our client, a leader responsible for a $350M division, and one of the direct reports, the head of marketing, were ready to extend an offer to a candidate for a new position: ...

MARK KILBY and JOHANNA ROTHMAN have written a book called “From Chaos To Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate To Deliver“. In this interview we dive into why they wrote this book and how distributed teams can be agile and successful. ...

Statistic after statistic extols the virtues of remote work – it’s a boon to productivity, it boosts morale and lowers stress for the majority of workers, and it reduces operating costs. As the practice grows in popularity, many have called it the future of work, and the new normal. ...

Working from home can be amazing (can you say “zero commute?”). But when your home is also your office, separating your work life and your personal life can be a challenge. ...

The PDCA Cycle is an easy-to-understand, repeatable approach for working toward continuous improvement. ...

It’s been five years since we first published the Learn S.M.A.R.T. template for recording experiment results, and since then we’ve updated it a few times. ...

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. That’s a big thought, expanded below, which also gives me a jumping-off point for follow-on posts. ...

A minimum viable product (MVP) is often perceived as a subset of the real product: a minimized version, lacking some features or missing some UI fine-tunes, but in fact, an MVP is more of a tool to test the core idea of what’s intended to be a product someday. ...

Using a shallow and dysfunctional version of a model that was already tired 20 years ago [1], linear plan meets adaptive challenge in a complex environment. Seriously? ...

Whenever you are building and deploying a complex system, there are always going to be bugs, defects, and unforeseen problems with usability — commonly referred to as Production Support issues. ...

Medical students are taught early to carefully consider the possible impact of their actions, this often translates to a bias towards inaction. A paradox when many of us consider them as being ‘fixers’. ...

I’m here to tell you that they don’t have to. I’m writing with the fervor of a missionary to stop terrible meetings. After discovering Silent Meetings I am converted. ...

... Vice President Engineering & Product Development von NEVS. Viele alte Zöpfe wurden abgeschnitten. „Agil“ ist für NEVS mehr als ein Buzzword.

There are an absolute ton of project management software options out there. However, two popular names you will come across after even a cursory ...

The ultimate goal of agile project management is to quickly respond to ... The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the de facto standard to promote ...