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 | Nov 9, 2020 | Führung, Working Together
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...
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 Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Sep 29, 2020 | Agile, Digital, Working Together
Marshall Rosenberg already described in his well-known book Non-violent Communication that people are social beings who are oriented towards togetherness. This would suggest that cooperation is relatively simple because we can do that from our biological structure....
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...
by Birgit Fischer-Sitzwohl | Jul 3, 2020 | Agile Transformation, HR, Transformation
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,...
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