Aim High – Start Small

“Aim high – Start small, but start!” that was my answer to the question in how to get started with an agile transformation. Thankful that I have been invited to … Continue reading Aim High – Start Small

Autoagil Podcast

What has automotive development in common with medical device development? In both areas there are many processes, standards, regulations. More on this topic I discussed with Leonid Lezner in his … Continue reading Autoagil Podcast

My slides from Manage Agile 2019 are available

For all who want to revisit my talk “Changing Pharma: Wie ein MS Project Plan mein Leben veränderte” I hold at the Manage Agile Conference 2019 in Berlin, the Slides … Continue reading My slides from Manage Agile 2019 are available

Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer

Now it is official: I´m a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT). From now on I can and will provide Certified Kanban Trainings within my company. So much looking forward … Continue reading Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer

#Empowering.Team meets #DBART

I am really looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Agile Round Table of DB. Had the pleasure of joining this great event several times so fare as a participant. … Continue reading #Empowering.Team meets #DBART

Value-oriented Work Breakdown

What are possibilities to slice down your product requirements and structure your backlog in order to increase impact for your customer? This is the question that Carolin Salz and I tried to answer. In a previous post we we already shared her personal journey from Project Management to value-oriented business agility. With this post we want to share some of our results with you.

From Project Management to value-oriented business agility

From Project Manager to Agile practitioner. That’s in short the story of Carolin Salz. Today she supports companies where you might not even expect agile development – like carpenters or construction companies. Not for introducing Scrum in their IT department, but striving for more agility in their business processes. This is the first of two posts on our work related to deriving a value-oriented Product Strategy.

Doing Strategy

Ever wondered why the 500 ppt slides on corporate strategy did fail in execution, communication and operationalization? Yesterday I had the honor to work with Markus Andrezak, Carolin Salz, Oliver … Continue reading Doing Strategy

Exchange on value based task breakdown with Carolin Salz

Prioritizing the product backlog and being focused on doing the right things first needs clarity about the conditions you are working in. Product Owners need to evaluate the circumstances and … Continue reading Exchange on value based task breakdown with Carolin Salz

Enterprise Kanban Coach

This week I successfully finished the last of four inspiring and amazing workshops in my journey to become an Enterprise Kanban Coach. It was a tough but incredible mind opening … Continue reading Enterprise Kanban Coach

How it started…

2013: I’m standing in the copying room, waiting anxiously for the copying machine to warm up and print a working plan. While waiting, all the sounds in my head went … Continue reading How it started…

Let´s start #EMPOWERING.TEAMs!

Hi there! Today we went “live” with our own Web-Page! 🙂 We are collecting and publishing content for Visual Workmanagement, Agile Leadership and Product Development Strategies – aiming to find more people who … Continue reading Let´s start #EMPOWERING.TEAMs!