Which component contains a product defect? The Twin Peaks model ensures traceability of requirements and architecture. Read how you can use the model with objectiF RM in today's blog.

2022 brings new opportunities and challenges. microTOOL is looking forward to offering you real added value with software for more business agility.

What rules should you apply in video conferences? Which mistakes can be easily avoided? Read our blog on video conferencing etiquette to find out.

Axel Höner reports on his acquisition of the title: Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant (SPC) and describes an all-round positive online seminar format.

Agility and resilience = agilience, a mindset comprising multi-layered abilities to deal with crisis and change for people, teams and companies.

Everything begins with an idea. And knowledge is power. Especially today in the so-called knowledge-based economy, ideas are everything.

Using a board for visualizing workflows and setting task limits (WiP limits) to maintain throughput are just two ways to optimize the production process in Kanban.

Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) scales agile project management according to Scrum, opening the method for multiple teams in an organisation.

Is user story mapping nothing more than good old business process analysis? Yes and no, says Dr. Andrea Herrmann and explains the differences.

Microservices are top dog in the field of architecture. Eberhard Wolff introduces this modular concept to us and points out hierarchy, advantages and disadvantages.

Business analysts are becoming more and more important through the course of digitization, because they serve as a connection between strategy and technology. Which skills does a digital business analyst need?

User stories describe the stakeholders' goals and wishes in agile development. Can the IREB quality criteria for requirements be fulfilled with user stories?

The Gantt chart is an established tool for planning projects. This blog post shows you how you can get the most of it.

Communication trainer Susanne Lorenz reveals how she uses a flipchart to clearly illustrate her presentations. Get inspired.

A pattern is a proven and repeatable solution concept for a concrete problem. How do patterns work in agile project planning?

How do you develop requirements and archteciture without delaying the project or letting the costs get too high? The Twin Peaks Model explains this.

Rainer Wendt describes the new structures for agile principles of agile business anaysis with the concept of planning horizons.

Agile development promises value for stakeholders in a short amount of time. But doesn't that inevitably come at the expense of the quality?

Work changes. What is the most sensible and constructive way to handle upcoming rejuvenation of work? And what are the dimensions of new work?

A project always has something to do with uncertainty. How do you approach uncertainty and which skills can you learn for dealing with it?

A good problem statement describes the task to be solved as generally as possible and so helps with the search for the right solution.

An agile transformaiton is a large challenge for many businesses. A change process with four steps can help.

Many businesses operate with functional teams in sales or IT. In the future, processual structures will offer more advantages to the customers.

Does requirements engineering have to develop further to be able to design new solutions? And how can creativity be embedded into IT analysis?

You can export information from in-STEP BLUE to MS Project. It also works for custom in-STEP BLUE properties.

Changing the project leader is no easy task. Which criteria should you pay attention to when doing so to save the project?

Forms can easily be adapted individually in in-STEP BLUE. Read here how to display the properties directly in the title bar.

You can exchange information between JIRA and in-STEP BLUE. Read how you can adapt your system for data exchange in just a few minutes.

A structured exchange of requirements among companies are not easy to arrange. The ReqIF standard in the OMG can help.

What should you pay attention to when developing usability requirements? What role does human performance capacities and perception play?

Products have errors because the wrong employees carry out the wrong tasks. It is time for a paradigm shift.

What can you do when there are too many requirements and you can't keep track anymore? Try working with templates and expiration dates.

Requirements engineers translate users' desires into language that developers can understand. But what kind of content goes into a specification?

Who should I talk to to find out my figure out my project goals? Or even better: what is the meaning of my project? A post about project and personal goals.

You can centrally manage and update document templates in in-STEP BLUE, and then distribute them into your projects with the press of a button.

Manage a lot of information with in-STEP BLUE. How do you determine product histories of individual artifacts for external tools?

Find out how to develop systematic risk identifcation mechanisms in your projects so that you can manage and minize the risks you face regularly. 

There are many IT anaylsis concepts. Concepts that compliment each other, some that conflict and some that contradict each other. Time to take stock. 

Communication is not always easy. How can non-violent communication in projects help and what are the different aspects of non-violent communication?

Using a system footprint to visualize your system requirements and allow everyone on your team to stay informed of the big picture. 

Step by step to a ticket system: today, step 7: create a work contract for tickets. Multi part series about managing tickets.

Step by step to a ticket system with in-STEP BLUE. Today, step six: how to display a ticket list in MS Word by using a template.

With in-STEP BLUE you can easily set a background image for your system. Maybe you also want to use your logo?

What is LEGO SERIOUS PLAY? How does it work as a participative problem-solving facilitation method and what is important in workshops?

With in-STEP BLUE you plan projects. And you also manage requirements, change requests, tests or even tickets. A step by step guide for a ticket system.

How to make meetings effective? What are the advantages of brain dumping and why is better than brainstorming or brain writing 3-6-5?

How to create products with in-STEP BLUE like project state reports or meeting protocols with the click of a button over a certain period.

Run-of-the-mill is a term that describes something that is of average quality, something that is mean, or cookie-cutter. But is it always a bad thing?

With objectiF RPM you can easily model the relationships between elements and you can also enter them into a table. Read these short instructions.