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Der Begriff Kanban kommt ursprünglich aus dem japanischen und bedeutet übersetzt „Signalkarte“. Die Kanban-Methode wurde erstmals im ...

Neulich hatten wir im Team die Gelegenheit genutzt und uns gegenseitig etwas beigebracht. Meinen Beitrag zu dieser Lern-Session können Sie im folgenden nachlesen: „Schreiben von professionellen Nachrichten – Schreibworkshop“. ...

Falls du schon einmal mit Personal Kanban zu tun hattest oder den letzten Artikel gelesen hast, sind dir sicher unterschiedliche Kanban-Boards aufgefallen. Hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, welche Form die richtige ist? ...

Dr. Creutzburg ist Psychologe und begleitet seit mehreren Jahrzehnten Menschen und Unternehmen in Veränderungsprozessen. Seine umfangreiche Lebenserfahrung manifestiert sich in der grundlegenden Überzeugung, dass Unternehmen nur von Innen heraus und unter aktiver Mitarbeit der Menschen im Unternehmen verändert werden können. ...

Viele Mitmenschen ziehen es vor, ihre Arbeit mit Papier und (Blei-) Stift zu organisieren. Und ja, dafür gibt es auch gute Gründe. ...

Extreme productivity comes from deep desire or deep pain. Find the problem you hate, or focus on the customer or the solution you love, and use that to fuel your fire, and burning desire. ...

„Was machst du morgens nach dem Aufstehen als erstes?“ – ‚Ich habe das Bedürfnis nach einer Tasse Kaffee!“ Ist das wirklich ein Bedürfnis? Ist die Tasse Kaffee der Kern deines Bedürfnisses? Oder ist dein Bedürfnis eher einen Moment der Ruhe zu haben, um sich zu sammeln? Ist es der Wunsch aus der Schlafphase schnellst möglich in eine aktive Phase überzugehen? Oder ist das Bedürfnis eher mit deiner Familie einen gemeinsamen Start in den Tag zu zelebrieren und der besagte Kaffee nur Nebensache ist? ...

Der eine oder andere unter Euch fragt sich vielleicht gelegentlich, warum manche Menschen so viel Zeit mit Computerspielen oder mit der Spielekonsole verbringen, während sie auf der Arbeit ziemlich unmotiviert sind. Der Unterschied besteht darin, dass diese Menschen auf der Arbeit lediglich Aufgaben abarbeiten (dürfen), während sie beim Spielen eine Mission verfolgen, die uns klare Ziele vorgibt. ...

Some people just happen to learn more from short movie clips. And they can be a great way to bring some humor in. ...

Rigid detailed long-term plans, where progress is tracked based on consumed budgets, are in agile organizations quickly becoming a fading nostalgic memory of the past. They are replaced by forecasts and non-static roadmaps. ...

Liberating Structures are a collection of interaction patterns that allow you to unleash and involve everyone in a group — from extroverted to introverted and from leaders to followers. ...

Organizational agility is the ability of an enterprise to change direction, realign and succeed in volatile, uncertain business environments. It requires sensing emerging trends and actively listening to customer requests, then acting on this information and making the changes required to position the organization for where it needs to be in the future. ...

Flow means the customer must always come first, Complex problems evolve lean thinking into flow thinking, Leadership must evolve and become distributed in Flow-based systems, Psychological safety is critical to detect weak signals, Teams need to learn how to be teams and apply teamwork training ...

Many organizations have trouble sustaining Lean. Toyota is one of the few exceptions. According to Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis in their book “The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership”, their secret is their leadership system. ...

Immer wieder höre und lese ich, dass Menschen in Veränderungsprozessen abgeholt und mitgenommen werden müssen. Ich halte das für übergriffig und paternalistisch. ...

I’ve heard from people who have theorized that Tesla’s window-breaking launch of the super-brutal pickup truck was either an intentional fail (look at all the publicity they got!) or a success (look at all the pre-orders they got!). ...

Let’s consider the role ethics plays in the world of project management. Everything from day-to-day interactions and activities to overall project goals are touched by ethical guidelines in some manner. With a great role comes great responsibility, and project managers are held to high standards as they are the people who make decisions for and act on behalf of stakeholders, organizations, and employees. ...

Have you ever thought about how some people make doing project management look easy, and it seems like they know it all? People listen to them, people take them seriously, people recognise what they do, and they’ve got support from somewhere – their boss, their mentor, someone. ...

It is mentioned this many times because building and maintaining a good relationship with stakeholders is one of the most important parts of any Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Business Analyst’s job. ...

Prioritization is key to getting the right work done in the right order. Prioritization would be simple if there was only one point of view involved. One person with all of their built-in biases could line work up in the order they wanted it done from the highest priority to the lowest in the blink of an eye. ...

Shift Happens! Things go wrong. So, as a project manager, you need to be able to manage risks. Here, I offer you 5 Tips for great risk management. ...

Managing a project requires juggling many different tasks at once—it’s no easy feat. But what if you had to manage multiple projects at once? That’s program management in a nutshell. ...

Our backlog is managed by our Product Owners Council (POC), made up of 7 voting members representing the users in the global markets. The voting members are responsible for translating their constituent user requirements into user stories for review by the council. ...

Inspection and adaptation are two of the pillars of the Scrum framework but all agile methods recognize the wisdom of Deming’s Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. ...

Many of my clients feel stuck with their component teams. They feel they must implement across the architecture, not through it. That's because the people are organized in component teams. ...

Agile projects typically use a unit of work known as a ticket, user story, or increasingly a job story. These tickets are written to specify some new feature that provides value to a user of the system. ...

Communication in the workplace can be a minefield with the ability to either elevate or sink productivity, depending on how good it is. So, it’s quite understandable that it’s one of the most important project manager skills. ...

The product strategy describes how you plan to achieve product success. It typically covers the product’s value proposition, market, stand-out features, and business goals. While a strategy is key to creating a winning product, it would be a mistake to blindly execute it and assume it will always stay valid. As your product develops and grows, and as the market and the technologies evolve, the product strategy has to change, too. You should therefore regularly review and adjust it. The following tips will help you with this. ...

This quote is often attributed to physicist Neils Bohr. It is also variously attributed to one or all of the following: Mark Twain, Yogi Berra, Samuel Goldwyn, politician Karl Kristian Steincke, or simply an old Danish proverb. That’s a healthy warning that things are rarely as simple as they seem and they usually get more complicated the deeper we go into them. ...

Scrum Master anti-patterns: The reasons why Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. ...

Trust may seem mysterious—something that just happens or grows through some unknowable process. The good news is there are concrete actions that tend to build trust (and concrete actions that are almost guaranteed to break down trust). ...

Wenn wir von agilen Menschen sprechen, so meinen wir damit Menschen, die in einer besonderen Haltung gegenüber anderen Mitwirkenden unterwegs sind. Es geht um Wertschätzung, Kommunikation auf Augenhöhe, und Vertrauen. ...

Wie könnte die strategische Steuerung in einer Kommunalverwaltung aussehen, die die Brücke zwischen dem kommunalpolitischen Steuerungsgremium Gemeinderat auf der einen Seite und der vollziehenden Verwaltung auf der anderen Seite schlägt? ...

Scrum Project Methodology (definition)- is a managing software development delivery, which falls in the category of agile project management.

Perception management was now an important skill, because who you knew, .... Agile methodologies, like Scrum, have precise rules, structures and ...

When taking the stance of an Experimenter, The Product Owner explains what we know AND what we don't know. They state hypotheses and ...

Agile officially grew up in 2019. Eighteen years have passed since the publication of the Agile Manifesto that helped popularize the movement.

The Project Management Framework (PMF) provides support to manage projects and enhances your ability to successfully achieve your project ...

Beim Vergleich von Sprint Reviews in Scrum mit Steering Committees in traditionell gesteuerten Projekten wird deutlich, wie agile Meetings die ...

Keep in mind that the more diverse and closer to the real operative conditions your data is, the larger the chances of your project's success will be.