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In this section you will find our articles, case studies, book reviews and toolboxes.
Five recommendations for self-organisation
The coronavirus and the associated contact restrictions will probably continue to accompany us for some time. This also means that many of us will continue to work more in the home office than in the company. That is why I would like to dedicate this article to the...
Is agile working crisis-proof and also possible in Corona times?
During the last weeks, I heard some interesting comments from my network about agile working in Corona times. Many companies have stopped their agile pilot projects, some managers have switched to "Command-Line" and use “Dailys” to issue commands similar to a morning...
Increased need for conversation in cooperation
Recently I read an article about the increased communication effort in larger teams. The idea was to consider how many communication connections there are in a team, depending on the team size. This diagram shows that there are quickly many communication connections...
Making decisions – what makes it so difficult?
When you have to decide, and you do not see the forest for the trees…Do you know what type of decision-maker you are? In his book, The Paradox of Choice, the American psychologist Barry Schwartz describes how modern man is overwhelmed by the constant need to make...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What‘s that?
Up to now, there is no clear and generally valid definition for the term "artificial intelligence" (AI). Already with the word "intelligence" we have difficulties to find a valid definition. Wikipedia defines AI as "... a branch of computer science that deals with the...
BOOK REVIEW – Rethinking agility
In this short work, the author describes an agile transformation project in a company with a structured and comprehensible structure. The book by Klaus Leopold "Rethinking Agility. Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility", is published by Klaus...
Agility – beautiful new world
Is there already a discussion in your company about how to become more agile? Or have you already arrived - in an entirely agile organization? Either way, agility has been the megatrend in management consulting for several years now. We want to take you on a journey...
Continuous improvement of team cooperation
If I ask managers or project managers and members in the training how they ensure long-term quality in their cooperation, we very quickly come to the topic of regular flashbacks. As a rule, such reviews always take place at the end of a project, if at all, and usually...
Transformation threshold or in the eye of the tornado
Many organizations are currently struggling with the fact that goals can change rapidly. No sooner is a plan in place than it is no longer worth the paper it is written on. The need for coordination between the individual teams is becoming more and more pronounced,...
Agile for beginners, a field report
How can agility begin for a team in a large organization? Here is a field report. The first approaches for agile working in large organizations are often based on concrete methods. You may have heard a lot of good things about agile practices and therefore try to...
Digital transformation in 80 days – a travelogue
In mid-March, we have catapulted quite abruptly out of our ordinary world. We were forced to develop new forms of cooperation very quickly to cope with the changed external conditions. The nickname of the year 2020 is "social distancing" although not "social" distance...
Is more agility always the right solution?
Recently I had a conversation with a very experienced Agile Coach. After some time, we ended up with a topic that I had already discussed several times with experts. It was about whether problems with agile working in larger hierarchical organizations always must be...
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