blog – artiClES
In this section you will find our articles, case studies, book reviews and toolboxes.
Book review – KANBAN in practice
Probably one of the most used tools in the agile context is the Kanban board. But the book "Kanban in practice" by Klaus Leopold is about much more than this tool. Kanban was developed in Japan in the 1970s. In this book, the author explains the full concept. He...
Managing dependencies in organisations successfully
High complexity products or services usually causes high dependencies within and outside the organisation.It's us against the rest of the world We have experienced in recent years that many of our clients stumble upon this phenomenon again and again. We have often...
Top 10 success factors for successful moderation
Do you know this? You come to a meeting, and slowly the individual participants trickle in. The meeting gets going, and after a short time, the discussion gets lost in detail. Half of the participants are not interested and one by one, they start to work on their...
When everyone calls for planning, where it’s not possible
We are currently experiencing a time when governments are accused of acting entirely in the short term rather than planning for the long term. The opposition parties are calling in the media for long-term planning and predictability, and accuse those in the power of...
Agility in the Nutshell III – Agile Mindset
In the first two articles of the series "Agility in the Nutshell", I presented Agile values and principles. This article is about an Agile mindset. By mindset, we mean ways of thinking, attitudes and approaches to problems. Agile mindset means changing the classical...
The prevention paradox – communicating corporate decisions correctly
The term "prevention paradox" was described in the early 1980s by the British epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose using coronary heart disease as an example, explains public health expert Martin Sprenger. It poses a fundamental dilemma for population - and risk group -...
Agility in the Nutshell – agile principles
In my first article of the Agility in the Nutshell series, we dealt with agile values. This time I will write about agile principles. The agile manifesto contains 12 principles according to which agile software development should be done. Our highest priority is to...
Communication in difficult times
"Speak nicely!", the ironic Austrian request to refrain from using vulgar or derogatory language, takes on a whole new meaning in these times. Today, for the first time on television, I saw and heard a correspondent formulating her contribution wearing a mask: perfect...
Conduct employee appraisals – leading by goals
Peter F. Drucker first published the management approach "Leading by objectives" in the 1950s and developed it further during the 1960s and 1970s. Until today, this approach remains the predominant method of how managers and employees interact in many companies. If...
Change Management: The top 3 mistakes during the change process in companies
Increasingly frequent and rapid changes in companies mean that many employees and managers question the meaning and benefits of change and do not accept it. If a company wants to remain successful in the long term, it must succeed in bringing all those involved on...
Agility in the Nutshell – Agile Values
More and more hierarchically structured organisations are discovering the topic of agility, mostly due to IT projects that are handled "differently" than classic "waterfall projects". The people who carry out these projects are usually viewed critically by the rest of...
Competence development with KODE®
We use the KODE® competence atlas from Erpenbek and Heyse for competence diagnosis. KODE® is divided into four main competencies: Personal competenceActivity and action competenceSocial communicative competenceTechnical and methodological competence Each of these...
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