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Was ist Mut? Wo fangen Übermut und Hochmut an? Einfach machen, Machbarkeitswahn, Omnipotenz …. Wo führt uns ein Begriff der „Leistungsgesellschaft“ hin, der ein einseitiges Erfolgsbild zeigt und nur das Siegertreppchen zählt? ...

I’ve been working with a few people who are very intelligent, very competent, and very talented — but they get stuck in indecision and analysis paralysis. ...

Mit meinem Freund und Kollegen Jan Fischbach durfte ich letzten Donnerstag und Freitag einen Workshop mit dem Titel „Scrum – Grundlagen für alle Rollen“ begleiten. ...

Aus drei Jahren agiler Transformation der BMW Group IT habe ich vieles über Veränderungsarbeit gelernt und das in drei Prinzipien zusammengefasst. ...

If I were to point out one of the most critical factors contributing to project success, it will probably be effective communication. It is evident from the statistics too; 59% of the US workers have stated communication to be their biggest hurdle in success. ...

In meiner Praxis begegnet mir immer wieder ein Thema, ganz gleich ob es um einen agilen oder „normalen“ Kontext geht: Die leidige Aufgabe der Kapazitätsplanung. ...

Oder auf gut fränkisch: a Goudala. Einer unserer Projektteams (das beileibe nicht nur aus Franken besteht) hat sich den Spaß gemacht und ein fränkisches Kanbanboard zur Projektplanung eingesetzt. ...

Why is it that companies choose to pay developers to write software? It's definitely not because software has any degree of intrinsic value. ...

The practice of capturing backlog items as user stories is well-established, to the point that many now consider them indispensable to an Agile way-of-working. In short, a user story is a placeholder for a conversation about a possible requirement. ...

A question that comes up again and again from teams is “What is the right size for a User Story?” -- a day? a week? three weeks? 1 point? 5 points? 10 points? 37? 100? 5 words? 20 words? ...

I totally understand some team members’ resistance to participating in daily scrum meetings. I don’t like meetings either. But, some meetings are helpful and worth the time investment. I put well-run daily scrum meetings in that category. ...

According to Toyota, it is the employees and not the systems that give birth to the best products. It is not possible to make good products without developing the skills of employees. ...

Im sechsten Artikel in meiner Serie über „Strategien für hohe Komplexität“ möchte ich auf die Frage eingehen, warum sich Führungskräfte überhaupt mit komplexen Systemen auseinandersetzen sollten. ...

What would you do if all hell breaks loose in a critical company project that you are managing? ...

The role of the Project Manager is somewhat similar to the coach of a high-level basketball team: they both have to bring order and organization to a group of (more or less) talented and skilled people. ...

In this episode, we join Kelly Suter (as of her last episode, she was in a Technical PM role; now she’s an Executive Producer at Mirum agency) to talk about stakeholder management. ...

On the general topic of metrics, they make the point that generally all metrics have unintended consequences. (No news there; I think we can all agree with that. ...

Dear Elizabeth: We have quite an established project management office, and we use a standard methodology and tools. ...

Though in project management, like in most professions, practice makes perfect, it is often the simplest project management mistakes which can keep causing problems. ...

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. ...

Okay, maybe the “tree falls in a forest” analogy isn’t perfect, but you probably get the point: you need to tell your customers when you make improvements. ...

This is a common question in my Professional Scrum classes. It often comes up early when we are still learning the basics of the Scrum framework. And it comes up because people are already wearing two hats or are being told by their organizations that they will be. ...

I was having dinner the other evening with a few agile coaches after teaching a CAL class all day. I think we all wanted to “trap” each other into either: ...

A couple of years ago Christiaan Verwijs and Johannes Schartau coined the term ‘Zombie-Scrum’. What’s it all about? ...

Most of you have probably seen the video 'How wolves change rivers' (it's embedded below). It famously describes how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone national park changes the entire ecosystem. ...

The stand-up meeting is a simple meeting that Agile teams hold on a daily basis to plan and synchronize activities. The Scrum Guide states: ...

Daily Scrums or stand-ups are a fixture of teams, agile or not, whether they are fulfilling goal identified in the Scrum Guide or not. The Scrum Guide identifies the Daily Scrum (often colloquially known as a stand-up) as one the key events in Scrum. ...

Bugs and tech debt are an inevitable part of a developer’s workload. Most teams live with an ever-growing backlog of these issues, and come to a kind of uneasy acceptance: it’s not great, but you can’t really fix it. ...

Early on in my agile practice, I believed in generalizing specialists. I even wrote Five Tips to Hiring a Generalizing Specialist. ...

The idea of Emotional Intelligence (EI) – or, sometimes called, Emotional Quotient (EQ) has been around for a while now. It’s an important one for all professionals and communicators to get to grips with. ...

Hey, you know that conflict you have going on? It's a pain, right? Sucking the life out of you, perhaps? ...

Curious to know what the psychology of avoiding lions on the savannah has in common with responsible AI leadership and the challenges of designing data warehouses? ...

The place of data safety in business viability and reflects on how to enable security in digital product - discussed by me, Igor Piatnytskyi, VP, Business Development at Nullgravity. ...

I was seething. The CEO had just asked my team to do something that I felt lacked integrity, was unprincipled, manipulative, and put our clients in a bad position. ...

The Osborn Parnes creative problem-solving process is a structured way to generate creative and innovative ways to address problems. ...

Ich habe ihn schon mehrmals zu diesem Thema gehört und gesprochen und bin sehr begeistert – und seine Erkenntnisse haben mir auch schon in meinen Projekten bei der Problemlösung geholfen: ...

In meinem letzten Artikel ging es schon darum, wie Führung gestaltet sein soll. Ich wies auf das Menifest für menschliche Führung von Marcus Raitner hin. ...

In dieser Folge berichtet Nicolas Korte, der Geschäftsführer der ETA Bochum GmbH, über die Herausforderungen einer Agilen Transformation am Beispiel seines eigenen Unternehmens. ...

Bodo Wünsch leitet das Berufsbildungszentrum von InfraServ Wiesbaden. Bis zu seinem Amtsantritt im Jahr 2018 herrschten im Institut tayloristische Managementprinzipien. ...

Lean Change ist die Anwendung von Lean Startup auf Change Management und macht Betroffene zu Beteiligten. ...