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How do you prioritize requirements with stakeholders? Best in joint workshops. Get to know the Rock, Pebble & Sand method with objectiF RPM today.

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.

Requirements Engineering nach IREB umfasst ein breites Spektrum an Aufgaben, die Sie mit objectiF RM bewältigen. Um die Anforderungen weiterzugeben, können Sie die Jira-Schnittstelle einsetzen.

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.

Establishing baselines is an important task for requirements engineering. Why is that, and how do you establish baselines?

Problems often arise because the specialist departments' knowledge roams over to the IT departments. What does this look like and what does it mean for requirements engineers?

Take different perspectives on complex projects and ensure the project's success by using the Project Health Check.

Is your business model ready for the digital revolution? Prof. Dr. Frank Hälsig shows five common business concepts for the digital economy.

You can best achieve your project success with an optimal project team. Get to know a simple method to get the most out of your project team.

Requirements workshops are a great technique for developing requirements. Where does this resonate in the execution, preparation and follow-up of a workshop?

For feature reviews, both review meetings and mechanical reviews are available. What is recommended when and how does a mechanical review go?

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

Digitalization is here - even for Easter. An entertaining experience of draining, dying and painting Easter eggs.

How can a very classical business culture introduce agile instruments and work more successfully? An experiential report.

How does the role of agile coaches in businesses look today? And what would organizations be missing is they went without agile coaches?

How do you migrate applications? And why is it worthwhile to consider an agile, iterative approach?

Evaluations frequently lead to misunderstandings. What should you pay attention in order to improve the communication in your workplace?

Why do you want to specify products when you could just develop them? Seven reasons to renounce documentation.

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.

With objectiF RPM you can generate precedence diagrams for your project plans and activities - either as a MS Visio or a PDF document.

Digitalization leads to new processes and structures. How should business IT set itself up to allow these changes?

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?

With objectiF RPM version 4.0, you can define your own artifacts and use them in your projects.

What is the difference between successful and unsuccessful people? Their actions and their thinking. Find out how to develop the right mindset.

How can comapnies adjust to new challenges in the new professional world and how can success be achieved?

Individual performance in teams is not always measurable. Why is an individual still delivering performance and what has appreciation to do with it?

If you want to make a change you need to break out of micromanagement. By delegating tasks you gain the time to get things done. Find out how!

Effective teams are an important factor in developing products. A unified vision is absolutely necessary for team work to succeed. How do you develop it?

Digitization is a buzzword that still holds many challenges for businesses. How should companies actually deal with digitization?

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.

Design thinking is the ability to perceive things that others cannot see and knowing how to execute ideas. What can developers learn from designers?

IT project managers have a lot of skills that are highly sought after in sales. Find out why it makes sense for them to begin a career in IT sales.

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

Spot the error this Easter with conceptual artworks by Haring, Mondrian, Johns, Magritte, Marc, Miró and Pollock. Compare two images. 

Step by step to a ticket system with in-STEP BLUE. Today is step 10: use multi Excel export for the parellel evaluation of different views.

Step by step to your in-STEP BLUE ticket system. Today Step 9: Export tickets and ticket lists from in-STEP BLUE to MS Excel.

Step by step to an in-STEP BLUE ticket system. Today step eight: create a work contract from a ticket form.

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

How does a software introduction at a Chinese company work? A discussion with Rudolf Siebenhofer, IT consultant and IT project management expert.