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The Subject Matter Expert or SME is the expert in telling you how stuff works. Product Owners that favor this stance are a blessing and a curse. When you bring relevant domain knowledge to the Scrum Team, they can make more informed decisions and create a better plan to achieve (Sprint) Goals. ...

We all know them; Tiger Woods, Christiano Ronaldo, Rafael Nadal, and LeBron James. Some of the best sports players in the world and they are all recognized for their great individual performance as an athlete. They have all won games, matches, rounds, championships, cups, and awards for their contributions and performance and so they must be amazing players in their own fields. ...

Teams, die sich zum ersten Mal mit Scrum beschäftigen, tun sich schwer mit der Rolle "Product Owner". Was macht diese Person genau? Wie sieht ihr Alltag aus? ...

„Wir machen jetzt [auch] Scrum.“ ist ein Satz, den (sicher nicht nur) ich in den letzten Jahren sehr häufig gehört habe – inzwischen auch außerhalb des Softwareentwicklungs-Bereichs im traditionell methodisch eher konservativen IT-Infrastruktur-Bereich. ...

Nachdem ich kürzlich darüber geschrieben habe, warum es so wichtig ist, zu visualisieren, wenn man Kanban nutzt, geht es heute darum, eines der wichtigsten Kernelemente von Kanban zu verstehen: das sogenannte WIP Limit. ...

Zu den verbreiteten Mythen um agile Produktentwicklung gehört auch die Aussage, dass sie in bestimmten Zusammenhängen nicht einsetzbar wäre. Der vermutlich zweithäufigste Fall (nach das funktioniert in bestimmten Ländern/Kulturen nicht) ist die mit grosser Überzeugung vorgetragene Behauptung, dass Agilität in stark gesetzlich regulierten Bereichen nicht funktionieren kann. ...

Scrum requires a self-organized team to deliver "done" increments at the end of each Sprint. This peculiarity sometimes raises criticisms and questions when it is discussed in trainings or when coaching the clients: how can a team work without a leader? ...

Your product road-mapping is a viable means to depict how this product is prone to develop, to adjust the stakeholders, and to procure a money related arrangement for this product. In any case, making a powerful guide is difficult, especially in agile development, where changes happen as often as possible and often out of the blue. ...

Die agile Transformation ist kein von Beratern erdachtes und vom Management beauftragtes Change-Projekt, so sehr das manche Verkäufer von Patentrezepten auch propagieren. ...

When the physicist Richard Feynman took the podium to give the commencement speech at CalTech in 1974, he told the strange story of cargo cults. ...

Meetings need agendas. Agendas help with project communication – they ensure people know why they are turning up to a meeting and what they should be doing when they are there. ...

Where does your project currently stand? How much work has been completed? How much remains to be done? A project timeline answers all these questions. It visualizes the project’s progress, letting anyone - even laypeople - get a better understanding of the project. ...

The Project Manager career path has more options. But it requires more knowledge and skills. The Scrum Master career path is easier to enter. And it heavily focuses on soft skills. ...

These are slides from the Agile Product Ownership Meetup, where we discussed the Discovery Phase of a product. ...

Your product roadmapping is a viable means to depict how this product is prone to develop, to adjust the stakeholders, and to procure a money related arrangement for this product. ...

When Google conducted its internal research study Project Aristotle in 2015, it found that psychological safety—the belief that one can speak up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes without punishment or humiliation—was the most important characteristic in terms of what makes a team productive. ...

Creative thinking is a valuable skill and can help you stand out and produce great results. Read on for a list of proven ways to increase your creativity. ...

One of the prerequisites for any type of analytics in data science is data preparation. Raw data usually has several shortcomings in structure, format, and consistency, so first it has to be converted to a usable form. ...

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. How these decisions are made is also important, and it requires a clear and collaborative process. Here’s a straightforward framework for collaborative decision making that is founded in transparency and trust. ...

The very nature of business is being transformed by the cloud. In a world where products are no longer finished before they reach users, and incremental improvements are regularly deployed, the relationship with a consumer shifts from buying a product once (owning it) to paying a fee to use it for a set period (renting it). ...

Sandy Mamoli shares from her successes and failures in her team’s quest to create a self-organizing organization, what worked and what didn’t. ...

Als er nach einem schweren Verkehrsunfall im Krankenhaus lag und “erstmals richtig Zeit zum Nachdenken hatte”, fällte Jörg Eckstädt einen Entschluss. Er schrieb einen Brief an die drei Partner seiner damaligen Steuerkanzlei: “Das monarche Denken muss einem nahezu hierarchiefreien Denken weichen. Derjenige, der etwas besonders gut kann, der eine bestimmte Idee oder bestimmte Kompetenz auf einem Gebiet hat, hat etwas zu sagen, und nicht der, dem die vermeintlich wenigen Produktionsmittel gehören. ...

Enter Kanban, a simple and intuitive solution that will help you boost your productivity with minimal effort. Popular concepts like lean startups and lean ...

As a project manager, you may want to learn about new agile techniques and the possible evolutions of your role. As it is always difficult to imagine the ...

Österreichs größte Projektmanagement-Vereinigung, Projekt Management Austria, zeichnet jährlich exzellente Projekte und Projektmanager*innen ...

ProProfs Project Management tool is counted as one of the best tools as it comes with all those features required to manage projects flawlessly.

The book Mastering Professional Scrum explores how using the Scrum values and focusing on continuous improvement can increase the value that ...

Scrum requires a self-organized team to deliver “done” increments at the end of each Sprint. This peculiarity sometimes raises criticisms and questions ...

Nicht nur bei der Einführung von ERP-Systemen, sondern auch bei anderen büroweiten Softwareprogrammen, wie beispielsweise ...

Ihr neues Buch "Resign Thinking" hat die Autorin Jacqueline Otten dem Thema Projektmanagement gewidmet. Darin vermittelt sie anschaulich nicht ...

The platform is fully customizable and can be integrated with other project management tools. 2. Azure DevOps. Produced by Microsoft, Azure DevOps ...

Leaders are often faced with questions on whether they should develop a capability or tool in-house or use outside partners. Here are guidelines for ...

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder [Entrepreneur]. The above words ring true in terms of project management and its ...

Immerhin gilt der Mainframe als Antagonist der agilen Entwicklung. Besteht die ... anderen Programmiersprachen und anderen Development-Zyklen.

"Bridging the gap between projects and operations by using agile techniques both in development, project management and system administration", ...

In 2010, we were the first to introduce Agile Project Management into Malaysia, which is targeted for the digital and software industry.” he said.

Die digitale Transformation wird das Projektmanagement in den kommenden Jahren verändern. Viele Unternehmen, vor allem im Mittelstand, ...

One of the core tenets of agile software development is the concept of the self-directing team. The idea is a wonderful effect when it works well. It takes ...

Five unmissable project management stories from smart roads to robo-dogs selected by APM's Project journal team.

Die Digitalisierung im Projektmanagement fordert das Dreigespann Menschen, Prozesse und Technik zu wegweisenden Veränderungen heraus.