Aktuelles aus der Welt des ProjektmanagementBranchen-News wöchentlich aktualisiert.

Making the decision to outsource your development or remain in-house is ... chart management, navigate Docker, and explain agile methodologies like ... Project management plays a major role in the success of projects and sprints.

Good project management is essential to every productive professional and freelancer. While there are a lot of agile project management tools to use, ...

Construction manager, project manager, what's the difference? As it turns out, quite a bit, and understanding those differences is crucial to any ...

There is a lot of talk around project management across all industries. In fact, according to Quora.com, the US alone has approximately 290,000 ...

To a product owner, “done” might mean fully tested and debugged, but the development team might be planning to do testing later. It's crucial that ...

Scrum meetings are short and focus on the backlog of project management tasks or directly related concerns. Whether you are a Scrum Master, ...

Wodurch zeichnen sich erfolgreiche agile Teams aus? In diesem Podcast unterhalte ich mich mit Marcus Berger, der im Rahmen seiner Dissertation erforscht, wie Teams erfolgreich kollaborativ zusammenarbeiten und erfolgreich Probleme lösen. ...

I read Neil Pasricha’s latest book, You Are Awesome, in two sittings. I’ll cut right to the chase: this book is one of the best (and most vulnerable and entertaining) books on resiliency out there. If you’re looking to become more resilient, you should pick this one up. ...

Our lives naturally get filled with clutter: possessions that we ordered online pour in week by week, we take on more and more, we are constantly reading and watching and responding, messages pour in daily as well. ...

Wir sind stolz, dass wir unsere Freundin und Kollegin Dagmar Dörner von innenhui.de davon überzeugen konnten, ein Gastartikel für unseren Blog zu schreiben. (Falls Ihr Dagmars Blog noch nicht kennt, sei er Euch an dieser Stelle noch einmal ans Herz gelegt!) Hier sind sie also: 5 Dinge, auf die Ihr bei der Einführung von OKR achten solltet. ...

Ich zeige dir, wie du mit der Scrum Master Skill Matrix deine Fähigkeiten bewerten kannst und daraus eine langfristige, mittelfristige und kurzfristige Planung für deine Entwicklung als Scrum Master vornehmen kannst. Am Ende des Beitrags bekommst du die Scrum Master Skill Matrix als Google Tabellen Dokument sowie als Excel-Datei zum Download. ...

Ein Bäcker organisiert sich agil – klingt komisch, ist aber so. Die erste Reaktion zu Agilität im Handwerk ist eher Unverständnis. Irgendwie cool, aber wirklich sinnvoll möglich? Das Spannende im Handwerk ist, dass die Ausrichtung der Produkte an den Bedürfnissen der Kunden unmittelbar existenzielle Auswirkungen hat. ...

Warum sollten wir etwas tun, woran wir keinen Spaß haben. Irgendetwas machen wir doch da falsch, oder? Genauso verhält es sich mit Dingen, von denen wir keinen Nutzen haben. Aber was machen wir dann? ...

Pop quiz. There are three teams: one is forming for the first time, another just added a new team member, and the third is re-aligning around priorities after the company announced a strategic pivot. Which team just entered a different stage of development? ...

Viable System Model Canvas. It all began about 24 months ago when I started this project (or product?). This outcome (or output?) is my recent development to get a step closer to make the model more well known, accessible and … applied. ...

Weniger Arbeitszeit führt zu mehr und besseren Ergebnissen. Was paradox klingt, hat jüngst Microsoft in Japan eindrucksvoll bewiesen. Im August hatten alle 2.300 Mitarbeiter fünf Freitage frei – bei gleichem Gehalt wohlgemerkt. ...

Gute Ideen zu bekommen, ist nicht ganz einfach. Umso wichtiger ist es, wenn man eine gute Idee hat, sie festzuhalten und nie wieder eine Idee zu vergessen. Man kann die Ideenfindung durch diverse Impulse aktiv initiieren. Dies kann zusätzlich methodisch unterstützt werden. Z.B. mit der Brainwriting Methode. Doch was tun, wenn die richtig guten Ideen beim Joggen, beim Waldspaziergang, beim Lesen oder unter der Dusche in den Kopf kommen? Wir wollten doch nie wieder eine Idee vergessen. Hier hilft die einfache und pragmatische Hemingway Notizbuch Methode. ...

This year, the theme of International Project Management Day is ‘Focusing on What Matters.’ ...

How often have you elicited items such as problems, solutions, or implementation ideas from meeting participants? This sounds simple, but often, participants disagree. The meeting can turn into quicksand. ...

A person inexperienced in project management may think that resource leveling is a method of making use of resources having the same height. Most experienced project managers know that it is a resource optimization technique which tries to make the best use of available resources to create a workable project schedule. ...

There’s more women than men coming into project management at entry level, and yet the large majority of senior roles are still occupied by men. Why is that? Any woman working in project management probably has a few theories! ...

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile... or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? ...

Since the rise of the Agile Era, putting the user in the center of product definition process became the standard for most companies. User stories are one of the basic tools that help us keep the user in mind while defining the product and its features. ...

In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. ...

When I first started practicing Zen meditation years ago, I thought it was to make me more calm. Then it was to make me less reactive. Then to make me less attached to things. ...

Noch nie war ich ein großer Fan des Begriffs der Work-Life-Balance. Er suggeriert eine Trennung, die ich so nicht bereit bin zu akzeptieren. Wenn etwas die Balance verloren hat, dann doch wohl unser Wirtschaften, wo Arbeit so gestaltet ist, dass sie nur mit entsprechendem Gegengewicht erträglich wird. ...

To get the ball rolling at the beginning of presentations, I share my cellphone number and ask people to text me fun questions. Serious questions come later. ...

Das erste Scrum-Team wurde offiziell im Jahr 1993 zusammengestellt. Die Idee eines Scrum Masters ist aber viel älter. ...

In my experience, the Daily Scrum is the Scrum event with the highest anti-pattern density among all events. Learn more about the Daily Scrum anti-patterns that threaten to derail your transition. ...

As useful as user stories can be, they’ve never been right for every team. An exciting alternative for some teams is the job story. A job story is focused less on the user performing some function than on the job to be done by that story. Job stories originated at Intercom and were best explained by Alan Klement. ...

Manchmal sagt ein Bild ja bekanntlich mehr als tausend Worte. Mit der Liberating Structure Drawing Together machst Du Dir genau diese Weisheit zu Nutze und hilfst Deinem Team, Dinge ausdrücken zu können, die es nicht oder nur sehr schwer in Worte fassen kann. ...

I am pleased to share this blog post that I recently co-wrote with Karen Schroeder. Karen reflected on her experience ramping up as a certified OKRs coach over the past six months. Her analysis of the OKRs cycle draws from many years of experience as a strategy execution and OKRs consultant as well as content from the preview-edition of the OKRs Fieldbook ...

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a study mission for a group of leaders from a global manufacturer. We visited several companies. ...

Vier Gesprächsteilnehmer*innen diskutieren über ihre Interpretation des Begriffes Agilität, ob und wie Unternehmen von agilen Prinzipien profitieren und wie eine von Agilität inspirierte Denkhaltung auf gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene wirken würde. ...

The project planning process can be daunting to a new project manager. And, indeed, to one with experience too. There are so many components, and steps to take. ...

With Microsoft 365, the world’s productivity cloud, we’re using the power of the cloud to help people and organizations achieve more. Last year, we shared our new vision for work management designed specifically to help teams collaborate on projects more efficiently and achieve more together. ...

What is the best way to communicate the progress of your project to clients, stakeholders, and to other people in general who don’t have a deep knowledge of your work, but their opinion really matters? ...

Many of the projects I manage involve in-depth qualitative and quantitative data analysis culminating in a final report that my clients can (hopefully) use to make decisions about how to improve their programs. ...

Stakeholders have a major effect on projects, which is no big surprise seeing as projects also affect them, as we’ve looked at previously. However, not all stakeholders perform the same roles or want the same things. ...

When considering a project management career, there are some basic project management skills you need to know about. ...