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If you’re confronted by someone aggressive at work, the first thing is to remain calm – our natural instinct is either to give in or to be aggressive back, and both of these are usually bad options. ...

Starbursting brainstorming is a structured technique to help your team come up with lots of ideas in many different focus areas. ...

The differences and similarities between the most common types of business measurement systems ...

Boeing and Airbus are arch-rivals, competing vigorously over decades for supremacy in the global aviation market, much like DowDupont and BASF do in chemicals. ...

For as long as there have been computer networks, there has been an ongoing arms race between those striving to keep them private and secure, and those who seek to exploit their weaknesses and use, steal, or leverage their contents for fun or profit. ...

The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. You’ve convinced your boss that threat modeling warrants consideration. Now it’s time to convince everyone else. ...

When Kate Gardner was laid off from her job as a magazine editor, she wasn’t sure what to do next. She tried freelancing for a month or so, but the instability of it ultimately made her want to hop back into a full-time job at a company she really liked (and could see herself at for a while). ...

Email has been the cornerstone of the Internet for decades. It's time to re-think that. ...

Instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Slack are trying to shove traditional emails aside when it comes to professional communication. ...

We are all doing high-frequency waterfall. Agile won’t save us ...

This is the story of how organizations evolve to pursue a clear product strategy in increasingly effective ways. ...

As we guide clients through organizational Transformation, we apply our System of Transformation incrementally via Expeditions. ...

In software architecture, there exists the idea of the golden hammer. Basically it’s a term for any hip new architecture movement (microservices, SOA, RESTful architectures, etc.) ...

Am 26.05.2019 sind die EU-Bürger aufgerufen, ein neues europäisches Parlament zu wählen. In Baden-Württemberg finden gleichzeitig auch die Kommunalwahlen statt. ...

Project management is an essential part of getting things done and achieving business goals. Through careful planning and executing, team members ...

Project managers need to stay on top of every facet of the project to hit your goals on time without going over budget. Once your organisation gets to a ...

Kanban-Ansichten sorgen für mehr Transparenz, fördern die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Stakeholder und erleichtern die Kundenkommunikation ...

Jeweils ein Product Owner und ein Tech Lead leiten die Teams. Der Product Owner verantwortet das Product Backlog, erhebt und formuliert die ...

We all deal with stress on a daily basis — whether it’s the stress of being busy and overwhelmed at work, having to deal with personal crises, traffic, relationships, health, finances … stress can be a big part of our lives. ...

Wenn Sie eine Aufgabe immer und immer wieder auf die gleiche Weise erledigen müssen, dann lohnt es sich darüber nachzudenken, ob Sie sie in irgendeiner Weise automatisieren können. ...

Wir alle kennen die Verlockungen durch sogenannte “shiny new objects”. ...

Lousy meetings are the rule – vibrant meetings the exception. In an ideal world, meeting-agendas arrive the day before the meeting. But you don’t live in an ideal world. ...

Mitte 2018 habe ich Christine Gebler beim FAV-Mitgliedertreffen kennengelernt. Sie sprudelte vor Freude über ihre neue Aufgabe: die Leitung der Abteilung Strategische Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung bei der Stadt Heidelberg ...

Darf ich Sie zu einem kleinen Gedankenspiel einladen? Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie landen im Rahmen einer Bildungsreise auf einem anderen Planeten, auf dem es eine zentrale und klare bildungspolitische Ansage gibt. ...

Scrum was originally developed by somebody, who had no experience with or formal education in project management, Jeff Sutherland. ...

There are two camps when it comes to WIP: work in progress and work in process. Who's right? ...

In our last post, we mentioned there were four tenets needed when designing a basic Kanban system. We also touched on the first two tenets and how to apply them in IT Operations. ...

Learning how to do Kanban can completely transform the way your organization manages tasks, especially for IT Operations teams which have to manage a steady stream of planned and unplanned work. ...

The comparison between Kanban and Scrum obviously comes up often when we're talking to teams, especially in the context of Professional Scrum with Kanban. ...

Scrum and Kanban aren't competitors, they are experiments every team should try. ...

In modern knowledge work, no two tasks are exactly the same; no two teams work exactly the same together; and no two project contexts are quite like each other. ...

Kennst Du das? Insbesondere im Beratungsumfeld wird nach sogenannten „Experten“ verlangt. „Haben Sie mal einen Experten für Thema X? Wir haben da so ein Problem und benötigen Beratung“, höre ich häufig, wenn uns Beratungsanfragen erreichen. ...

Technology is evolving. That’s no surprise. From the world wide web to self-driving cars, all the way to the eventual onset of artificial intelligence (AI), we are living in a time where, now, more than ever, technology drives societal change and influences normality. ...

Operating on schedule and under budget are hallmarks of successful project management. If you’re doing your job well, outside observers have no reason to take interest in what you’re doing. ...

There are a lot of people who stop using MS Project before they even get very far into a project. The main reasons for quitting Project are: ...

Lots of project managers come to Laura Dallas Burford asking how they can become a consultant – but many can’t tell her why they want to. ...

Gap analysis is a methodology used to identify whether your business or project is performing as it should be and how to bridge the “gap” between where you are and where you want to be. ...

One of the challenges with writing a blog for a long time is it possible to repeat yourself. I’m not talking repetitious themes; I’m talking word for word writing pretty much the same article. Again. ...

How does transparency feel? Early in my career, I had an occasion to experience that. I was working in a typical organization where lots of things, ...

Whether you’re new to your team or you’ve been leading them for months or years, it’s never too early or late to endear yourself. ...