• Certified Agile Leader (CAL 1)

    In a world that is constantly changing and increasingly characterized by agility, a new kind of leadership is needed. Instructions and reporting lines are no longer enough. Instead, the agile organization requires managers to shift towards coaching, mentoring and support.This training is designed for all those who are ready to make the paradigm shift towards more self-organization in teams.

  • Agile: stay ahead in a volatile world

    We know agile organizations of all kinds of sizes and fields – from small to medium-sized businesses to Dax corporations, from IT to retail. We are masters of agile work at all levels: from the team to the board of directors. And do change management that combines systematic and at the same time systemic transformation. That's a cool combination of openness and structuredness.

  • 10 ways to crash your Kanban system

    They are composed of a collection of anti-patterns for the application of Kanban and are to be understood as a kind of reminder. Here are: 10 ways to crash your Kanban system. 1) Make your ToDo list a ToDo Matrix Put your ToDo list across the Kanban board as column labels and use it additionally as Backlog. This promotes confusion and opacity on two levels.

  • Prioritize and Say No Properly – A First-Hand Report

    In addition to the daily work, the team had all kinds of other tasks to take care of. Plus, there were requests from employees and customers – tasks and requests that could not be scheduled in this way. The sheer volume of these unplannable things soon meant that the team could not keep up with the daily work. The issue soon came up in a retrospective.

  • What is Scrum?

    Because Scrum is intended for any kind of development. Scrum is based on agile principles The basis of Scrum are Empowerment and self-management: teams are empowered and responsible to make all necessary decisions themselves. Early and regular deliveries: Those ensure a steady flow of (partial) results.

  • Kanban Set Up Guide

    What kind of work is that? What makes a good process? How does the implementation of work happen with you? How do you choose work? Based on the above workflow, the team creates its first board. For this we first clarify whether the workflow is always the same or whether the tasks are completely different.

  • How do you “scale” agility? An interview with Malte Foegen.

    And what kind of questions do you ask at the team level? At the team level, I basically see two patterns: either I have a team that handles larger tasks that also take some time. An example would be a team developing a product. The other possibility is a team that provides a service and has small requests rather than longer-term, larger requirements.

  • Change along the adoption curve: 5 groups for sustainable change

    So they are kind of gatekeepers of change, or better preservers of the status quo.However, Cedric also knows that participating in the change will not happen voluntarily. That’s why he gets Malika on board. He explains to her about the late majority and that now there is a decision needed by her that will be enforced consequently.

  • Kanban in a nutshell: impulses to frequently asked questions

    And like you said, kind of familiar. Scrum also helps me with systematic improvement, after all. And how does Kanban work now? Daniel: Basically, Kanban enables improvement through a set of practices and principles. The beauty of it is, even a first exposure to the practices can make a huge difference. Essentially, it’s about visualizing and limiting what is being worked on in parallel.

  • SAFe is not the Problem

    Mindset and interpretation determine what kind of reality we make out of a model. E.g., a Daily Scrum can be a Morning-Reporting-Meeting or an event of self-management. That’s up to us team members. The same applies to SAFe: The PI Planning can generate a Gantt Chart. But it also can be a great collaborative refinement of a Product Backlog. It depends on us.