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WORKHACKS. Six attacks on established workflows
Lydia Schültken sees the key for real change in the development of new, optimized routines, not in extensive change projects. Work Hacks are not given from "above" or conceived by a management consultancy, but are changed, tested and implemented, introduced by those...
CASE STUDY: Work Hacks
A few weeks ago I had a leadership training with executives. It was about finding ways and means to strengthen the team's ability to work together. The managers were asked to develop "small" interventions that could be implemented quickly on the one hand and bring...
WORK HACK: Agile Project Management
The term "agile project management" is an indication that there is a desire in a company for proven and established processes, but at the same time one would like to have the advantages of both methods. In the handling of projects proven traditional project management...
TRY AND ERROR INSTEAD OF RADICAL CHANGE
The term Work Hack is derived from "Life-Hack". "Life-hacks" are strategies to make everyday life easier. Work hacks are analogous strategies to make everyday work easier. It is about intelligent, simple methods to be more efficient and, if possible, more effective....
WORKING AGILE OR BEEING AGILE
" Do or be agile" - this difference has already been discussed several times. Mostly to emphasize that there can only be an effective form of agility if you not only establish agile processes, but are also agile. So it behaves like this and does not just follow new...
AIMING
Our world is fast moving, changes are no longer predictable. In our daily work, we constantly face the challenge of combining fast pace, complexity and quality. You might think it makes no sense to think about goals in these dynamic times. Circumstances change so...
GOALS IN AGILE CONTEXTS
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything". Dwight D. Eisenhower Setting goals is, besides aligning the company with a suitable strategy and creating efficient structures, one of the essential tasks of a company's management. This, or something similar, is what I...
CASE STUDY AIMING IN AGILE CONTEXTS
This case study describes the change of the classic release management process in a major Central European bank towards an agile approach with iterative development and cyclical delivery of new software. Initial situation In the past, the Bank's release management...
“…AT NOON I WILL GO HOME.”
In his book "… and at noon I go home" Detlef Lohmann describes how he completely restructured and radically changed his company. The book is very entertaining and mostly written in a very exciting way. It contains many practical examples that make it easy to implement...
CRITERIA FOR A SUCCESSFUL AGILE COACH
Recently I had a conversation with a client about describing a good agile coach. I often hear such questions at agile conferences and also in meetings with my customers. Usually the list starts with the fact that it is important to be able to convey agility as a...
CANVAS: Digital Leadership
In their book "NETWORK SCHLÄGT HIERARCHIE - Neue Führung mit Digital Leadership", the authors Christiane Brandes-Visbeck and Ines Gensinger provide their readers with a helpful Canvas for developing their Digital Leadership style towards "Digital Leadership...
CANVAS – Analyze and Edit Agile Criteria
The CANVAS method allows us to analyse and further develop the agile criteria of our company in a team. Strategy Food for thought What are the core elements of today's strategy?Is Agil anchored in the strategy?Who defined the strategy?Is the strategy known to all...
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