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Poorly run meetings offend the talent at the table. Our hatred of meetings points to an issue leaders love to ignore. ...

Every day, we are dealing with a thousand things, overrun by emails and messages and tasks and chores … and it can become overwhelming and shut us down. ...

Collaboration-Tools als Heilsbringer für bessere Zusammenarbeit? Warum Software-Werkzeuge nur die halbe Miete sind und was man bei der Auswahl beachten sollte. ...

Gute Entscheidungen zu treffen in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt mit immer mehr Möglichkeiten, ist nicht einfach. ...

Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. I analyzed more than 50 job ads for Scrum Master positions to gain these. ...

Woran erkennt man Artikel, die aufzeigen wollen, wie doof Scrum sei und gleichzeitig selbst offenbaren, dass der/die Autor:in Scrum nicht verstanden hat? An der Abarbeitung des „Sprint“-Begriffs. ...

Im Kosmos der agilen Frameworks gibt es Begriffe die niemand kennt, hinter denen sich aber Phänomene verbergen die in vielen Teams so alltäglich sind, dass es niemandem auffällt, dass sie keinen bekannten Namen haben. ...

Imagine Developers arriving at the Daily Scrum feeling like they want the monotony of it to end. They wish they hadn't had to bother to attend in the first place. ...

Eine der am meisten gestellten Fragen in meinen Trainings ist: "Wie begeistere ich meine Kollegen für das Thema Agilität?". Das scheint also ein Thema zu sein, das recht viele Scrum Master, Agile Coaches und Führungskräfte umtreibt. ...

Many organizations usually go the Agile route or the Six Sigma route, and that is perfectly okay. Technology has become a dominant force in modern times, becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives – both personally and professionally. ...

In your search for solutions, involve everyone benefiting from them ...

The five things you must avoid during your refinement sessions. ...

Learn how to make your first Agile Product Backlog ...

Wenn ich gefragt werde, worin ich den Hauptunterschied zwischen den ewigen Konkurrenten Apple und Microsoft sehe, dann antworte ich gerne: In der Anwendung der 80/20 Regel. Was heißt das für mich als Anwender von Computerprogrammen? ...

In vielen Besprechungsräumen finden sich Aufsteller mit Regeln für die Durchführung von Meetings – sei es „von oben verordnet“, gemeinsam erarbeitet oder gar aus einem mehr oder minder hilfreichen Buch oder Schulungsunterlagen einfach abgeschrieben. ...

Most of us have something on our task list we’re avoiding. Or a project we’ve been putting off. Think for a moment: what’s the task or project you’ve been avoiding lately? ...

You go further when you drop the saboteur you carry on your back. ...

Stell dir vor, am Morgen liegt ein riesiger, fetter Frosch auf deinem Teller, den du verspeisen musst. Würdest du das auch am liebsten schnell hinter dich bringen? ...

You too can have a zero mail inbox, if you choose to. I chose to go zero mail in my inbox when I first joined Microsoft years ago, and I’m glad I did. ...

Nach dem Scrum Guide Update war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis der Nexus Guide ein Update erfährt. Pünktlich zum neuen Jahr ist es soweit, der Nexus Guide 2021 ist da! ...

I've been asked several times now about Nexus and SAFe - what are the similarities, differences, etc. If you’re not familiar with either Nexus or SAFe I recommend taking a look at the Nexus Guide and the SAFe whitepaper first. ...

While the new Scrum Guide is less prescriptive and more inclusive, it also ties loose ends by including elements better, namely the previously free-floating Sprint Goal and the Definition of Done with the creation of Scrum commitments. ...

Create a Stakeholder Map to identify your stakeholders and how you involve them to create valuable products Scrum Teams exist to deliver value to their stakeholders. It's a bit of platitude, right? What is value? ...

Die Formulierung von einem Sprint-Ziel als Produkt Owner ist nicht einfach. Dominique, Tim und Oliver klären daher zu Beginn dieser Folge, was sie unter einem Sprint-Ziel überhaupt verstehen. ...

Nachdem ich vor ein paar Monaten darüber gesprochen habe, was ein Scrum Master den ganzen Tag macht, geht es hier jetzt endlich um den Product Owner. Dazu habe ich Heiko Stapf in den Podcast eingeladen. ...

It is with value stream management that large organizations are able to realize the Agile + DevOps performance they’ve been looking for. ...

Wenn man (sich) diese Frage stellt, muss man besonders darauf achten, dass in dem Warum kein versteckter Vorwurf steckt. Das gilt natürlich besonders, wenn man sich als Führungskraft von Führungskräften diese Frage stellt, aber unter Umständen auch, wenn man sich selbst diese Frage stellt und auf die eigene Führungsrolle abbildet. ...

Transparency enables and strengthens connection and trust. But everything doesn’t need to be known or shown. ...

How off-the-shelf solutions and “best practices” can actively impede self-organization ...

The cautionary tale of the Spotify model ...

The Product Owner in Scrum is accountable for the value delivered. ...

Scrum has been instrumental in the success of many teams for years now and it is all possible to happen being centered around the 5 values of Scrum. ...

Why does everything take so long to build? Have you heard this before as a product manager? Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to ship good, high quality software only to be faced with comments from different parts of the business about why things take forever to build. ...

I am a fan of simple formalisms. A formalism is a mechanism, process, or structure, that you can use to help frame your thoughts or accomplish your work. ...

In my years as a software engineer I was always drawn to the shiny new things. But time and time again I got confronted with code ridden with technical debt. ...

Interest in product management roles has soared in the past five years. A Google Trends analysis shows that interest in the search term “product manager jobs” has increased by 104% since January 2016 and interest in “product manager salary” by 55%. ...

They want to know why customers renew. They want to learn the key to organic growth. They want to know exactly what their competitors have on their dashboards. Industry benchmarks. ...

Saying no is a firm part of our job as product people: Trying to please everyone and taking on board every idea is hardly a recipe for achieving product success. But saying no can be tough, especially when we are faced with a senior, assertive stakeholder. This article offers five practical tips to help you say no in the right way. ...

Why most software delivery reports are a hoax, and what to do about that. ...

How about an irreverent respite? In today’s post we’ll look at the 1973 book, Malice in Blunderland, by Thomas L. Martin, Jr., once the Dean of Engineering at the University of Arizona and later the President of the Illinois Institute of Technology. ...