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It seems to me that being behind on all the things you need to do has become (or perhaps always has been) a part of our basic human condition. ...

Eine der größeren Herausforderungen, wenn dein Business zu laufen beginnt, ist es, neben dem Abarbeiten deiner Kunden-Aufträge, etwas weiterzudenken. Damit meine ich, dir Zeit zu nehmen, auch strategische und nicht nur operative Aufgaben in deinen Fokus zu rücken. ...

Fertig! Monatelang hat der Dienstleister an der Erstellung des Werkes gearbeitet! Es wurde gesprintet! Es wurde das Backlog verfeinert! Es wurde alle 4 Wochen ein Review mit dem Kunden durchgeführt. Der vereinbarte Budgetrahmen wurde eingehalten.Das Produkt ist fehlerfrei. Perfekte Welt! ...

Learn what a minimum viable product is, and the role of task dependencies in project management and the benefits of them. ...

The Professional Scrum Master (PSM) workshop has a module that talks about the Definition of "Done" (DoD) and Technical Debt. I have often come across several students who find this concept confusing. This article is a small attempt to have better clarity on these topics. Let us take a look at the DoD- ...

In vielen Kanban-Implementierungen findet man die Definition of Done. Auch weitere Exit-Kriterien und eine Definition of Ready sind meistens zu finden. Ich erzähle dir, wie man sie nutzt und wie man sie etabliert. ...

The other day I had a conversation with a colleague. He was looking for an opener for a talk - something catchy to illustrate to his audience (mostly finance and banking) that there could well be a need to change their current ways of working. ...

If there is one trend that has surpassed Agile in our profession over the last five years, I would say DevOps would be a good culprit. As we’ve seen an explosion of tools to implement CI/CD in our Scrum teams, we’ve also seen some of our Agile practices being challenged by this new reality. ...

Gefühlt wird alles irgendwie agil. Unser Omma war lange agil und die Organisation soll zumindest irgendwann mal agil werden. Ihre auch, oder? Und jetzt auch noch die Strategie? ...

Organisationen sind komplexe Systeme. Man kann sie nicht aufschrauben und einfach umbauen, wie Maschinen. Wenn man es doch versucht, scheitert man in der Regel. Deswegen sollte man verstehen was die Unterschiede zwischen komplizierten, komplexen und anderen Systemen sind und welche Herangehensweise jeweils angemessen ist. ...

Information technology is prevalent in nearly every industry and organization across the globe. It’s a diverse and challenging discipline with a lot of moving parts and critical scenarios. ...

I spoke with a project manager recently. She told me her story. ...

The role of top leaders in guiding strategy creation is well documented. Less understood is that once the strategy is formed and shared, the leader’s actions must focus on minimizing organizational friction—the processes, cultural nuances, and political and personal impediments that threaten the organization’s speed-of-execution. ...

Meeting people and socializing during the holidays at work parties and social events can be stressful. These great conversation-starter questions can make meeting new people much easier. ...

User-related questions and assumptions are not tracked throughout a product’s lifecycle, causing misalignment and overconfidence. Documenting these questions and assumptions in a knowledge board differentiates them from real facts. ...

Regardless of the industry you work in or the size of your company, becoming a CEO is a pinnacle of success in the business world. You’ve proven your leadership, you’ve done things right, and you’ve been successful. ...

Some visualisations to help you understand and communicate key ideas in Product Management ...

How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents. ...

What makes a standup effective? We know, from the Study of Product Team Performance, that the highest performing teams hold effective standups daily. Not every other day, not every third day, not occasionally. Daily. ...

What do Scrum Masters actually do, all day long? This is a hard question as the behavior of a Scrum Master is very contextual. It depends greatly on the maturity of the team, the experience of the Product Owner, and the amount of dysfunction in the organization. ...

Weihnachten 2019. Wir vom Forum agile Verwaltung wünschen Ihnen natürlich nur das Allerbeste. Und möglichst geringe Lambda-Schwellen 2020. ...

Letzte Woche hatten wir unser Abschlusstreffen mit den WOLies, was eigentlich das Ende unseres WOL-Zirkels sein sollte. Aber so viel kann ich schon mal verraten: ein Ende ist es nicht, vielmehr ein neuer Anfang. ...

Sonja Mewes hat einen Hintergrund in BWL und früh erkannt, dass in dieser Disziplin die zwischenmenschliche Zusammenarbeit zu kurz kommt. ...

If you are a startup owner, you will inevitably be making mistakes in the ... A successful product is vital for the growth and relevance of your business in ...

I concede that the best practices described in this series reference, Commercial Project Management, do not require methodology, but I do believe that ...

Project management tools allow you to break down and organize deliverables, create roadmaps, and include daily updates to various tasks. Clients ...

In 2017 I was talking to the head of the Agile Coach Group of a large bank. She asked me to come over to work with her and help to roll out their ...

Meiner Meinung nach MUSS aber mit der Einführung von Scrum oder ähnlichem auch eine Änderung in der Meetingkultur einhergehen. Klare Ziele ...

They are not part of the development team, but agile is about bringing .... We streamlined our organization by removing many management roles.

In this stage and the following, the product owner plays a super important role, Utschig said. The product owner moves with his idea to BI X for ~4-6 ...

Line managers -- a group that includes product owners, Scrum masters, various types of leads and the occasional development manager or producer ...

Scrum has become a popular method for developing and designing software. And why not? There's clear evidence it improves the resulting software's ...

The project management app offers every tool to the user that can streamline the whole process of documentation. Right from creating the doc to sail ...

Retreat: Take a little time out of my busy year for a little quiet solitude and turning inward, creating space for silence, contemplation and mindfulness. ...

Schon mal erlebt, dass deine Agenda im Verlaufe eines Workshops spätestens ab der Mitte nicht mehr genauso aussah, wie geplant? Dann ist dieser Artikel etwas für dich: Denn darin geht es darum, wie du deine Agenda als Kanban-Board gestalten und damit Struktur in komplexe, sich dynamisch entwickelnde Workshops bringen kannst. ...

Things to consider when utilizing Scrum. Some examples include revisiting the ways that Sprints are organized and making sure to update the product backlog. ...

“Wir müssen aber pragmatisch vorgehen”, drängt der Kollege. Hm… Im Wörterbuch finde ich für “pragmatisch” in etwa: sachbezogenes, praktisches Handeln. Klingt gut. ...

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria, and how they relate to User Stories. ...

There are two common mistakes made when setting goals. #1 Not setting any goals #2 Setting too many goals ...

For the past few decades, agility in the technology sector has largely meant moving faster and faster down a predetermined path; innovation has largely been driven by our ability to cram more transistors onto a silicon wafer. With every new generation of chips came new possibilities and new applications. The firms that developed those applications the fastest won. ...