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March 22, 2022 How to Manage Major Projects Successfully

DI Gernot Winkler 1022 words • 9 minutes

Unclear distribution of roles, lack of communication, late involvement of stakeholders, and insufficient integration into the process and line organization can cause (not only) major projects to fail. With these 10 theses, you can avoid the biggest pitfalls and successfully manage tasks of this scale.

Johanne Lyngsø Jensen 1030 words • 9 minutes

The Half Double methodology helps organizations reinvent their way of working with projects, increase the overall success rate of projects, and balance resources more effectively. Find out how to improve your daily project work using this innovative methodology.

Gerald Aquila 656 words • 6 minutes

The Scaled Agile Framework is a process management model that is quite different from all project management methods. Discover five characteristics that differentiate Essential SAFe from other methods and why we believe they are unique.

Gerald Aquila 530 words • 5 minutes

In today's highly competitive and ever-changing markets, organizations need to adapt to changes quickly. The Scaled Agile Framework transforms entire enterprises, leading them to an agile and customer-centric business approach and ensuring faster time-to-market.

Univ.-Prof. Dkfm. Dr. Roland Gareis 519 words • 5 minutes

The process of requirements management depends on the process model used to realize an investment. In sequential models, a change request process is used to change requirements. In iterative models, there is no change request. Instead, additional requirements are defined at each iteration, and requirements that have not yet been realized are prioritized.

Gerald Aquila 605 words • 6 minutes

In agile theory, you plan only one single sprint ahead. But as we all know — theory and practice don't always align. The sprint board is designed to overcome this potential limitation. This blog post deals with the idea of the sprint board and approaches on how you can make the best use of it in agile planning.

Thomas Lieb, PMP 1234 words • 11 minutes

Nowadays, there are many different approaches to how to develop organizations agile. The philosophy is that agile working methods and agile organizational structures should always be striven for and ultimately considered to be "better." As for the so-called "agile transition," the same three observations or points as stated by those involved and affected, should always be mentioned again and again.

DI Gernot Winkler 814 words • 7 minutes

No matter how we twist and turn it, we live in a VUCA world. To ensure competitiveness, new or changed strategies, and business models are required and, ultimately, organizational changes. A process that can be understood as a transformation of the organization into a target state recommended to be carried out agile.

Martin Neubert 722 words • 7 minutes

In order for your company to develop, new projects are definitely going to be started over and over again. This is exciting – and also a massive undertaking. It is not always easy to find a proper start. Fortunately, many companies are already using a tool that saves them a great deal of work in project management: their social intranet.

Gerald Aquila 358 words • 3 minutes

Management reporting is the primary source of information for all managers, stakeholders and decision-makers and therefore an essential success factor for every company. Naturally, digitization has also become an integral part of management reporting.

Gerald Aquila 355 words • 3 minutes

What is program management, what are the tasks of a program manager and how can you differentiate it from multi-project and portfolio management?

Ing. Oliver Dragoun zPM, PcE 811 words • 7 minutes

Design Thinking is a management tool that combines creative and analytical methods. It aims to release maximum creative potential among all stakeholders of an innovation project in order to systematically solve complex problems or tasks.

Ing. Oliver Dragoun zPM, PcE 845 words • 8 minutes

The term Kanban comes from Japanese and consists of the words "Kan" for visualization and "Ban" for card, document or board. The best-known Kanban element is probably the Kanban board.

Ing. Oliver Dragoun zPM, PcE 655 words • 6 minutes

The origin of agile methods (e.g. Scrum) lies in software development, where changes are often not only on the agenda, but can even represent a competitive advantage.

Ing. Oliver Dragoun zPM, PcE 483 words • 4 minutes

Agile methods - where they come from, what they can do and who they are (particularly well) suited for. Our new blog series introduces you to the most popular agile methods and their fields of application.

Gerald Aquila 381 words • 3 minutes

Learn in this article how to define project stakeholders, why stakeholder management is important and how to conduct an adequate stakeholder analysis.

Gerald Aquila 297 words • 3 minutes

The concept of Earned Value originates from financial planning and controlling but has also been used in project management for many years.

Gerald Aquila 277 words • 3 minutes

Milestones mark important dates within a project. The Milestone Trend Analysis (MTA) visualizes whether these dates are met or postponed. In this article, you will learn how to interpret the MTA easily.

Gerald Aquila 435 words • 4 minutes

The Gantt chart or bar chart according to Gantt is one of the most popular methods for scheduling projects. What it can do and how it is created can be found here.

Gerald Aquila 426 words • 4 minutes

Everyone knows the feeling of standing in front of a task that is so big that you do not know where to start. The secret of successfully completing such a large task is to "break” that task “down" into smaller, easier-to-handle sub-tasks.

Gerald Aquila 404 words • 4 minutes

The project charter is the “green light” for the project. The moment a customer or client places the project order, the preparation phase ends and the implementation phase begins.

Gerald Aquila 357 words • 3 minutes

Can you imagine a marathon whose length and endpoint are unknown? Probably not. That's exactly why project goals are needed. How they are formulated correctly and why the right self-assessment is not only crucial in sports, read on here.

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March 22, 2022 How to Manage Major Projects Successfully

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March 02, 2021 How to Manage a Change Request Process in a Traditional or Agile Environment

February 02, 2021 What's a Sprint Board and How You Can Use It in Agile Sprint Planning

January 07, 2021 Agile Transformation of Organizations: Agile Transformation

December 01, 2020 Agile Transformation of Organizations: PMCC Organizational Model

November 03, 2020 Agile Project Management in Times of the Social Intranet

October 01, 2020 The Timeline—Live Management Reporting at Its Best

July 09, 2020 Program Management and the Purpose behind It

June 09, 2020 Part 4: Agile Techniques and Methods at a Glance: Design Thinking

May 19, 2020 Part 3: Agile Techniques and Methods at a Glance: Kanban

May 05, 2020 Part 2: Agile Techniques and Methods at a Glance: Scrum

April 23, 2020 Part 1: Agile Techniques and Methods at a Glance

July 29, 2019 The Basics of Stakeholder Management

June 27, 2019 Does Reality Correspond to the Plan? Earned Value as an Efficient Project Controlling Tool

May 30, 2019 Milestone Trend Analysis: How to Analyze Your Stage Wins

April 25, 2019 Scheduling with Gantt Chart: Always Following the Bar

April 16, 2019 The Work Breakdown Structure or How to Overcome Large Tasks

March 27, 2019 Start and Guideline: The Project Charter

March 26, 2019 What Are Project Goals and How Do You Define Them Correctly?