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Over the past months, SVPG has published several articles on coaching product managers. Many of these have focused on how to cultivate the right PM mindset: things like customer-centricity, true collaboration, and thinking like an owner rather than an employee, to name just a few. ...

“It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” British naval historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote that opening line for an essay in The Economist in 1955, but the concept known as ‘Parkinson’s Law’ still lives on today. ...

In the software world, “waterfall” is commonly used to describe a style of software process, one that contrasts with the ideas of iterative, or agile styles. Like many well-known terms in software it's meaning is ill-defined and origins are obscure - but I find its essential theme is breaking down a large effort into phases based on activity. ...

How can we be aligned and autonomous at the same time? The short answer is: a shared map of enabling constraints on different abstraction levels. This post describes the more concrete answer. ...

Creativity can feel soft and squishy for many driven, business-minded people. But creativity can play a big role in serious business. There’s a solid place for creativity in the business world. ...

As we established in our last post, being a project manager is not an easy job. There are so many things you need to keep track of and control that at times it may seem absolutely impossible for a single person to do. ...

When a colleague asked me to write a post on the difference between solutioning and project management, I knew that solutioning had transcended from a passing fad to a full-blown trend. It had embedded itself in the consulting lexicon, and there was no turning back. ...

Be careful how we apply industrial manufacturing paradigms, including Lean and Theory of Constraints(ToC), to IT. Linear stream flow models only work in IT (or, I suspect, manufacturing), at a close scale. Zoom out and they fail us, its not linear any more, not even to an approximation. ...

Having spent the last couple of months interviewing project managers about their ways of working has opened a window of the everyday hassles and troubles of project management. In this article, I will explore the complexities surrounding project success factors and explain what should be measured and the risks associated with not tracking progress. ...

In a recent weekly tip email to subscribers, I offered six ways teams could make their daily scrums more useful. (If you aren't subscribing to those, here's how.) But I had such a hard time limiting myself to six that I thought I'd share a few more here. With that in mind, here are ten tips for improving your daily scrum meetings. ...

As Scrum Trainer I get to meet a lot of teams and hear of many different ways to do Scrum. Most are valid ways, yet some seem more aligned with the values of Scrum or the purpose of the specific Scrum Element. ...

A common misunderstanding among those new to agile is exactly what the role of the ScrumMaster is on the team. I have often heard people say, “I didn’t sign up to be a ScrumMaster; it’s not my job to talk to the product owner,” or “I’m not the ScrumMaster; I don’t like to act like one.” ...

VUCA is an acronym originally used by the American Military. It was the response of the US Army War College to the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s when, suddenly, there was no longer the only enemy, resulting in a need for new ways of seeing and reacting. ...

The things you don’t do are more damaging – in the long-term – than the things you do. ...

Was soll das? „Abholen“ und „mitnehmen“. Ich nehme meine Kinder irgendwohin mit, ich nehme meinen Koffer mit. Ich hole meine Familie vom Zug ab. Ich nehme Zuhörer in einem Vortrag auf eine Gedankenreise mit – hoffentlich. ...

Tom DeMarco und Timothy Lister unterscheiden in ihrem m. E. nach wie vor lesenswerten Klassiker „Wien wartet auf Dich!“ ...

Sie haben sicher schon von dieser „Agilität“ oder diesem „Agile“ (sic!) gehört, von dem alle reden. Vielleicht haben Sie “es” sogar schon ausprobiert. Und eventuell haben Sie auch das Gefühl, dass nach Jahren der Euphorie in letzter Zeit die Stimmen der Kritiker und Skeptiker wieder lauter werden? War also alles nur heiße Luft, einfach wieder nur eine von vielen Managementm(eth)oden, die kommen und gehen? ...

Bevor man ein Projekt startet, macht es Sinn, das Spielfeld genauer anzuschauen und die darauf versammelten Mitspieler. Wer gehört zu den Gegnern, wer wird mich unterstützen, wer steht dem Vorhaben neutral gegenüber? ...

Jüngst sind mir zwei neue Canvas-Modelle über den Weg gelaufen, die ich hier kurz vorstellen möchte. ...

In einem ersten Artikel vor einigen Wochen hatte ich auf die Kosten hingewiesen, die durch die große Anzahl paralleler Projekte verursacht werden ...

In seinem kurzen Impulsvortrag ging Christian u.a. auf die Bedeutung von Innovation, Prototyping und Feedback bei der Entwicklung neuer Produkte hervor. Um nicht in der Theorie zu verharren, schloss er an seinen Vortrag gleich noch einen praktischen Workshop an und ließ die TeilnehmerInnen der ausgebuchten Veranstaltung interdisziplinäre Teams bilden. ...

The short answer is no. You do not need a bachelor's degree to become a project manager. However, you'll find it challenging to land a job if your only ...

One visit to the 'resource store' and your dreams will come true. Wake up! If resource management was that easy every project would be successful.

Während des Verlaufs des Projektmanagements mit Scrum wird der Entwurf des Projekts auf das User-Story-Modell fokussiert. Das Projekt stellt die ...

Im Idealfall (anders gesagt: in der Traumwelt) erhält Ihr Entwicklungsteam vom Product Owner, Business Analyst oder Requirements Engineer gute ...

I have taken the most of this opportunity to improve my knowledge of project management and what impacts management has on game production.

A successful project cannot begin without detailed plans, an implementation schedule, and tracking tools. Each activity should be anticipated and ...

I've had business leaders stomp on projects that promised a level of transparency that made them too uncomfortable. I've had a super successful ...

Projekte sichern die Zukunft von Unternehmen, vom Mittelstand bis zum Konzern. Der Bedarf an professionellem Projektmanagement ist damit ...

Agile is older than Windows XP, yet it still gives developers, project managers and business analysts that "too trendy to be legit" vibe. And their ...

Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 sind seit Jahren in aller Munde. Können wir davon ausgehen, dass Unternehmen mittlerweile alle Kompetenzen ...

DevOps dreht sich um Agilität mittels schneller, kurzer Lieferzyklen sowie um die Automation von Softwareentwicklung und Applikationen.

... der Mitarbeitenden“, erläutert Anna Adler, Director Corporate Development ... Laut der Studie werden agile Strukturen und Ansätze vorwiegend in ...

With DevOps, the gap between leader and team is shrinking: Expect a ... Read also: Top 7 open source project management tools for agile teams. ] ...

Agile software development methodology focuses on the development ... creation of user stories elaboration of ideas and lifecycle management.

The aerospace sector was successful in winning awards for Transformation Project of the Year Award won by Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace for its ...

Latenzprobleme oder Compliance-Vorgaben können verhindern, dass IT-Chefs eigentlich erfolgreiche KI-Projekte hochskalieren. Wie sich solche ...

Auch nicht genügend ausgeprägte Fähigkeiten in der Anwendung von Projektmanagement-Methoden führen laut iTSM nicht selten zu erheblichen ...

KPMG is planning to axe more than half of its in-house project management team in an effort to “transform” its UK business and save money.

On Tuesday 29th October APM held its first ever Midlands Research Symposium - an event jointly supported by APM's Research programme and the ...