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August 24, 2023 Master the PI Planning Event from Strategy to Execution

Dieter Freismuth Dieter Freismuth 2383 words • 22 minutes

Simply put, PI Planning is a two-day event that brings the entire Agile Release Train (ART) together every 8-12 weeks to align teams and stakeholders around a common vision and mission.

Agile teams, project owners, and other stakeholders come together to strategically plan the upcoming Program Increment. It is facilitated by the Release Train Engineer (RTE).

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December 15, 2022 10 Steps to Set up a Project Management Office

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 2404 words • 22 minutes

Setting up a successful and sustainable PMO is a significant challenge but provides excellent benefits if implemented correctly.

We developed ten steps to help you set up a PMO that fits your organization's needs, aligns with your business goals, and is designed to outlast major organizational changes. So, let's get started!

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March 22, 2022 How to Manage Major Projects Successfully

DI Gernot Winkler DI Gernot Winkler 1018 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.

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September 09, 2021 5 Features That Make Essential SAFe Unique

Dieter Freismuth Dieter Freismuth 682 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.

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June 22, 2021 How SAFe Drives Business Agility

Dieter Freismuth Dieter Freismuth 558 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.

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

Dr. Roland Gareis Dr. Roland Gareis 523 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.

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February 02, 2021 What's a Sprint Board and how you can use it

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 618 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.

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January 07, 2021 Agile transformation in your organization: 4 steps & principles

Thomas Lieb Thomas Lieb 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.

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

DI Gernot Winkler 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.

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November 03, 2020 Agile project management: 4 advantages of the social intranet

Martin Neubert 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.

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October 01, 2020 Do you determine your deadlines or vice versa? How to use the timeline

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 417 words • 4 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.

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July 09, 2020 What is Program Management: The Purpose behind It

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 370 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?

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

Ing. Oliver Dragoun Ing. Oliver Dragoun 808 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.

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May 19, 2020 Part 3: Agile Methods at a Glance: The Kanban Method

Ing. Oliver Dragoun Ing. Oliver Dragoun 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.

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

Ing. Oliver Dragoun Ing. Oliver Dragoun 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.

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

Ing. Oliver Dragoun Ing. Oliver Dragoun 479 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.

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July 29, 2019 The Basics of Stakeholder Management

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 452 words • 4 minutes

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

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June 27, 2019 Earned Value Analysis as an Efficient Project Controlling Tool

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 1152 words • 11 minutes

How efficiently are you using your time and resources? Learn how to properly use the concept of Earned Value in project management: Explanation and calculation of important project controlling key figures to compare the project plan and actual status.

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

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 298 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.

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

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 463 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.

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April 16, 2019 How to overcome large tasks with the Work Breakdown Structure

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 470 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.

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March 27, 2019 Start and Guideline: The Project Charter

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 421 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.

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March 26, 2019 3 expert tips on how you should define your project goals SMART

Gerald Aquila Gerald Aquila 386 words • 4 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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