How can lean thinking be established in sales and marketing? What is the value of customer benefit and how can it be determined?
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Columbo’s rules
How can Inspector Columbo’s questioning techniques improve communication and cooperation in organisations and solve problems?
Why so many agile transformations still fail
Many agile transformations fail. How important are procedure, communication, trust, mistakes and security for the success of a transformation?
“Let’s do Flight Levels” they said….
The Flight Levels Model is a communication tool for organisations. How can it be successfully introduced and applied? A field report.
Productivity and humanity – contrast or win-win?
Productivity is considered a natural goal of successful companies. What does this mean for cooperation and what are the consequences?
My OKR is broken!
Often, OKR do not deliver what organisations expect from them. Why is this and what can organisations do better?
Agile task critique in the public sector
A task critique examines which tasks will be carried out in the future and in what way. How does a remote, agile task critique work?
Remote Sprint Review in Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
What is the purpose of the Sprint Review in Scrum and how could a Sprint Review in Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) with multiple remote teams be facilitated?
Languishing and Dahinsumpern
What is languishing and flourishing? And what role does digital facilitation play in successful team development?
From why questions to miracle questions
You certainly know why questions, but do you also know miracle questions? An entertaining description of questioning techniques, perspectives and answers.
Our experiences with Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
How does the introduction and implementation of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) work? A field report from a specialist in trade fair planning and construction.
Internal Agile Coaching
Many organisations rely on internal agile coaching. What models are there, what are the advantages and disadvantages and what should organisations look out for?
Creativity in companies
Creativity is an important ingredient for the success of companies. How creative are organisations and what tips promise improvement?
Giftedness and high sensitivity in companies
Chances are good that your company also employs people with giftedness. How can you use the potential?
Agile Mindset? I know of something much better!
In demanding an agile mindset, the paradox of agility becomes visible and the nature of complexity is overlooked. What helps is a …
How vulnerable is corporate data?
Many medium-sized companies increasingly fear for their corporate data. What are the threats and how are they perceived?
Scrum Master and Agile Coach in comparison
Scrum Master and Agile Coach are two roles with parallels and differences. A comparison of tasks and knowledge during a conversation in the coffee kitchen.
Resilience is more than a buzzword
Resilience is suspected to be a buzzword, yet it is something that individuals and organisations should consider. Why and how?
The good old change of perspective
The change of perspective helps in change processes and makes it easier to let go of one’s own positions. But what can be done about systemic blockages?
How does the True Leader bring the Agile Mindset into the team?
Is there such a thing as an agile mindset, why is it needed, why should it be changed and what role does a true leader play in this?
Team topologies in adaptive organisations
If you want to design modern software architectures, you have to adapt your organisation. The time is ripe for team topologies.
Empowerment and self-organisation – good preparation is everything
Empowerment and self-organisation sound positive and promise numerous advantages. But the road is often long – what does it depend on in detail?
Constructivism in organisations
Constructivism says: objectivity is an impossibility because each individual constructs his or her own reality. What does this mean for organisations?
And he does play dice…
Can you imagine making decisions by dice or coin toss? What are the advantages, what are the flaws in thinking and what are the limits?
Spotlight on: Encourage!
Encouragement is a sign of attention that encourages others or oneself. How can we encourage in practice?
Dealing with change
Changes pose major challenges to people and organisations. Do models help normalise or predict responses?
People are quite different, aren’t they?
People have different communication preferences. Those who know their own and their conversation partners’ preferences are at an advantage.
Home-Office-School Balance – is it possible?
Home Office and Home Schooling at the same time is a big challenge. How can a Home-Office-School Balance possibly be achieved?
Candidate Experience
Candidate Experience – just another term for buzzword bingo or what is behind it? What phases exist and how does it work in practice?
Dark Data
What is Dark Data? What are the prominent and lesser-known examples and should companies collect and monetise dark data?
Agile risk management – do we need it?
How can risks be addressed in an agile approach without setting up classic structures? A method proposal for agile risk management.
The Scrum Master as agile learning coach
How can a Scrum Master or agile learning coach support a team in learning? What are the consequences for refinement, planning, sprint and review?
Silo mentality – no one likes it, everyone knows it
Silo mentality exists in many companies. How does it develop, what are the levels and what can organisations and employees do about it?
The consultant – the all-in-one solution?
How do companies look for reinforcement in requirements engineering? What is the role of the consultant and what skills are required?
A maturity model for agile requirements engineering
How can a maturity model be used to evaluate agile requirements engineering in cross-functional development teams? A field report.
Effective management
Effective management provides a framework in which more performance can emerge in organisations. But how does a manager act effectively?
Why agile when there is antifragile?
How can companies develop into antifragile organisations? And what are the differences between antifragility and agility, robustness and resilience?
How to negotiate leadership
How does leadership in self-organisation work? What food for thought is useful for collaborative leaders and for self-organisation in a team?
Secure password wanted
There is no such thing as a secure password. What criteria and tips help to set a less insecure password?
Working on the system? On people? Both!
Not the people but the systems in companies should be adapted. This is a frequent demand. Why is it an “either-or” at all?
Kamishibai and Kanban for (too) interdisciplinary teams
Balancing project work, support and maintenance tasks is a challenge. Kanban combined with Kamishibai allows a holistic view.
Consensus, consent or what?
What is the difference between consensus and consent? And how do a Red Circle Solution and the Morphological Matrix help in decision making?
What we can learn from starship Enterprise
The TV show about the Starship Enterprise presents knowledge from research into uncertainty, which even today is not very widespread. What can we learn from it?
Boost your backlog – Part 2
Do you want to optimise your backlog? Then practical tips on how to deal with specifications, documentation, story splitting, refinement and DEEP will help.
Giving better feedback with the EPIQ Model
The intention of feedback can be very different. And so can the quality, position and empathy. Time for a look at the EPIQ Model.
Tips for online onboarding
Onboarding is important for the integration of new employees into an organisation. What are the challenges and tips for online onboarding?
Boost your backlog – Part 1
The daily work in and on backlogs is a challenge. Read 10 practical tips for dealing with user stories, story maps, acceptance criteria etc.
A buzzword is a buzzword
What is a buzzword? What effect does it have? Why is it subjective, what is behind the labelling of terms and what is the most secret buzzword?
Agility? We tried it! Does not work! – Part 5
There are many reasons why agility does not work in companies. Part 5 of the series deals with agility and learning in a crisis.
The organisational rebel – after all, a good idea?
The demand for organisational rebellion is generally considered nonsense. Could rebellious activities nevertheless be useful for organisations in certain areas?
The human being in digitalisation
Our world is digital and many companies are engaged in digital transformation and digitalisation. What role does the human being play in this?
Encouraging leadership
Encouraging leadership enables growth, development and potential unfolding. Why is this important from a business perspective?
Myth Session Duration
The session duration is considered an important indicator of the quality of a website. How important is the length of stay really? An opinion.
New Work or Zombie Apocalypse
Many organisations deal with New Work, but the transformation of the organisation becomes an apocalypse. What goes wrong and what can be done?
Smart Requirements Engineering
The present and future in dealing with requirements is called Smart Requirements Engineering. What are added values and which tools are already available?
Order clarification – first things first
Order clarification is also an important factor in agile projects. What practical tips exist and which questions help to clarify orders?
Text Analytics use cases simply explained
Text Analytics has developed into a powerful tool. What are the main use cases and who benefits from them?
Digital assistants and workers in requirements management
Digital assistants and workers can save a lot of time in requirements management. What tasks can they already take on today?
Successful with learning stories in the backlog
How can agile teams learn parallel to product development? With learning stories in the backlog. A field report on implementation and success factors.
The culture code of organisational agility
If organisations want to become more agile, they have to change their culture. One approach to this is the TEC model of agile corporate culture.
Beyond agile
Agility is considered the answer to an uncertain future, but agility does not master complexity. Something is needed that goes even further. Beyond agile.
Social Loafing in agile teams
Social Loafing also exists in agile teams. What effects does this have on the self-control or leadership of the teams?
A journey through the stages of team development
Trust is the basis for self-organised work. Trust requires empathic leadership. And how can trust be built? With the stages of team development.
Climate of innovation in teams
How do organisations succeed in creating a climate of innovation in which employees can optimally develop themselves and their ideas?
The customer is king
Do you treat your customers like kings or do you not want this at all? And who is your king: the employees or the customers? An individual opinion.
Tolerance and the diversity of opinions
Differences of opinion often lead to conflicts. How can tolerance and the recognition of patterns help to eliminate conflicts?
That’s no Scrum
Organisations that have difficulties with Scrum often have to listen to accusations that they are not applying Scrum properly. Is the accusation true?
Knowledge Sharing is power
Changes present people with great challenges. Knowledge sharing as a conscious sharing of expertise and information can help to manage change.
Encouragement leads to courage
Courage is a competence that is becoming increasingly important in and for companies. But demanding courage does not help. Something else is essential for change: encouragement.
Team building in requirements engineering
Team building in requirements engineering is not easy, because it depends on the strength of character, trust, discretion, skill and confidence of the consultant.
Remote retrospective – tips from many years of practice
Remote retrospectives often pose challenges for organisations. Which tips and principles help in practice? A field report.
Lean Kanban, Agile Kanban
What is Lean Kanban and what is Agile Kanban? What are the differences and what are the experiences with the introduction of a Kanban board?
Agility? We tried it! Does not work! – Part 4
There are many reasons why agility does not work in companies. Part 4 of the series deals with planning, measurement, metrics, feedback, persistence, tools and diversity.
Purpose? I got one: To stay alive!
Companies often look for their purpose. Is it useful or pointless to discuss the means and purpose of companies? An opinion.
Five tips for building a low-code team
Low-code platforms promise fast, cost-effective and thus efficient software development. How can low-code teams be set up? Five tips from the practice.
Unique Selling What?
Companies are often asked to find their differentiator and define a Unique Selling Proposition. But does this USP even exist?
Burnout, digitalisation and the hamster wheel
More and more people suffer from burnout. What role can digitalisation play in this, what does the famous hamster wheel say about the viewer and what might help look like?
Systemic thinking and acting at the workplace
The systemic approach is appreciated as a coaching and therapy tool for individuals, couples or groups. How can it also help in the workplace?
Learning is not a sexy subject. Or: Learning from Scotty.
Do you want to improve your situational actions in unexpected situations? Then you should train your learning by doing. A look at starship Enterprise will help you do this.
Do you believe in agility?
Agility is about mindset, values and best practices. It’s not about wording, and the agile manifesto is not a sacred scripture. An opinion.
Communication in small and large companies
Is there a change in communication “in business”? Does the same apply to communication, rules and channels for both small and large companies?
