Objective Key Results

Google’s compass: OKRs – Objectives and Key Results

One principle of the Agile Manifesto is that the best innovations emerge from self-organising teams. Self-organisation means that the team is able to develop solutions independently. There is no leader or architect to whom responsibility can be shifted. Agile organisations consist of many such teams and face the major challenge

Design Thinking – Give It a Try!

In your professional daily routine, you have to make decisions every day—whether you are a manager or not. Sometimes the right solution is clearly in front of you without requiring much thought. However, far-reaching decisions with consequences for customers and colleagues often take a long time. This is also because
Agile Teams

Agile Teams: The Company Within the Company

In agile teams, people with different roles and skills work together to achieve significant value gains for the customer in a short time. Continuous learning and the search for opportunities for ongoing improvement are central. Traditional project teams also want to increase customer value and continuously improve collaboration. So what

Home Office – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

The option of working from home is becoming increasingly popular. The advantages of home office are obvious: companies are happy to save office costs, hope for focused completion of important tasks, and are perceived as attractive employers through a lived culture of trust. Many employees are happy to do without
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The Agile Manifesto: 4 Values – 12 Principles

In 2001, experienced software developers met in Utah to network. None of the experts involved anticipated the cross-industry impact that would emerge from this occasionally spirited gathering. What united the participants was a deep frustration with the established development methods of the 1990s and the hope for a paradigm shift.
Lean Startup

Lean Startup: Validated Learning in a Short Time

What can established companies learn from startups? Many associate the term startup with a new spirit of innovation, primarily fueled by successful founding stories from Silicon Valley. In the course of digitalization, many see the opportunity to develop novel products. Startups have been springing up like mushrooms for some time,
Scrum

SCRUM – The Sprint Method

First things come differently, and second, not as expected: Complex projects are difficult to plan from start to finish. The only constant in a large project is the continuous change of the product and working conditions. To maintain an overview and remain capable of action even in this apparent chaos,
Delegation Poker

Delegation Board: Who decides what?

Delegation is a common topic in leadership and collaboration. Conflicts often arise between managers and teams because it is unclear how much coordination or consensus is needed for a particular issue. Managers often fear a loss of control when considering giving teams the opportunity for self-organization. And creative networkers often

Minimum Viable Product (MVP): The Idea Diet

Once an idea is on the table, there is often no stopping it. A real flow develops and innovative detailed suggestions fly wildly through the room. This is fun, good, and important. But what happens next? Often plans are made about what will be implemented, how, and when. In doing