by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Dec 14, 2020 | Agile Methods, Effectuation
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...
by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Dec 8, 2020 | Agile, Agile Leadership, Agile Methods, Agile Organizations, Agile Transformation
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...
by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Nov 24, 2020 | Agile, Agile Leadership, Agile Methods, Agile Transformation
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...
by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Oct 26, 2020 | Agile, Agile Methods, New Work
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...
by Waltraud Ferz-Steinbauer | Sep 1, 2020 | Agile Leadership, Agile Methods, New Work, Working Together
One of the essential management tasks has always been to make decisions in the best possible way. The emergence of new forms of organisation has not changed this. Nevertheless, a self-organised team needs alternative decision-making techniques in contrast to a...
by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Aug 18, 2020 | Agile Leadership, Agile Methods, HR, New Work
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...
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