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The Purpose of Being Agile
Introduction Why, would you think, are we (oh!) so agile? Why do we do Kanban or Scrum? a) To have more fun?b) To become a better team?c) To follow industry standards? „Take a wild guess!“ Laury Anderson It is neither of it. To give you a hint, I quote the very first Google hits for […]
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Remarks on PRINCE2’s „Product-Based Planning“
What is Product-Based Planning? Product-Based Planning is a longtime hallmark of PRINCE2. It consists of four steps: Write a Project Product Description, which is a high-level description of customer expectations. Write a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS), which is a logical hierarchy of the project’s deliverables. Write a Product Description (PD), which is a concise but […]
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A reply on Michael Küster’s agile anti-patterns
https://failfastmoveon.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-agilists-betray-very-nature-of.html While I agree upon the „badness“ of Michael’s anti-patterns, I would like to add some remarks on my reasons, why he is right. On Agile projects Anti-Pattern „There’s no such thing as Agile Projects! You must do Product Development!“ – can you even smell how dogmatic and close-minded this is? You’re not inviting a […]
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A reply to Michael Küster’s article on „When will the Agile Project be done?“
https://failfastmoveon.blogspot.com/2019/07/when-will-agile-project-be-done.html Dear Michael, this post should serve as a reply to some of the points you made in the post found above. I’ve got some questions… Q: Is „it“ a project? A: A project is a time-boxed endeavor to deliver a specific ‚product‘ with a limited resources. All these three conditions have to be fulfilled. Thus, if you […]
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„Home Office“ vs. Agile
Exec Summary Das Home Office wird gerne als der wünschenswerte Zielzustand des durchdigitalisierten modernen mobilen Arbeitsplatzes gesehen. Im Folgenden werde ich „Home Office“ ohne Anführungszeichen schreiben, obwohl der Begriff für Native English Speakers eher mit dem Innenministerium verbunden ist. Die Corona-Pandemie hat bewiesen, dass erhebliche Anteile der Dienstleistungsarbeitsplätze im Home Office möglich sind. In diesem […]
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Was heißt eigentlich Lean?
Lean heißt wörtlich knapp, mager, manchmal sogar arm, es könnte auch mit schlank übersetzt werden. Aber Lean in diesem Sinne meint es im Sinne von Lean Production, also im Sinne von John F. Krafcik, der den Begriff Lean als Gegensatz zu Buffered positionierte – und auch im Sinne des Toyota Production Systems (TPS) nach Taiichi […]