• What is Agile?

    Complex environments exist in markets when, for example, new products, new technologies or new competitors suddenly appear, or because customer requirements suddenly change. Complex environments are often referred to as "VUCA environments." The term "VUCA" is the abbreviation for: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Agile is Lean Agile stands on the shoulders of Lean.

  • What is agile leadership?

    To keep pace with rapidly changing requirements! Today's leaders are striving to keep pace with rapidly changing business needs and must recognize that rapid adaptation is critical to their success. They need to rethink their role as a leader, their relationship with their employees, and the culture of their company.

  • Successful realignment: How our expertise dynamizes your transformation and delivers results.

    Quality improvement: If problems arise with product or service quality, change management can help to improve processes in such a way that quality standards are raised;Adherence to compliance and regulatory requirements: Changes in legislation or industry standards may make it necessary to adapt processes. Change management helps to implement these adjustments systematically and compliantly.

  • Why Kanban makes a difference for managers

    A key question here is how companies can organise themselves in such a way that they can react quickly to new requirements without losing efficiency.One possible lever here is Kanban. But what difference can the use of Kanban make to corporate management? – What does flow mean in everyday life? ‘Flow’ describes a state in which work runs smoothly and without interruption.

  • Agile Myths: Agile Solves all my Problems

    Those who involve their customer in the requirements specification will develop a common understanding with the customer of “what” they need and more importantly “why” they need it. If you know what the actual benefit is for your customer, you can respond proactively and develop better solutions.

  • SAFe 6.0 Release Train Engineer Training (RTE)

    You will learn how to prepare, plan, and execute a Planning Interval (PI) planning event, which is the primary requirement for alignment at all levels of a SAFe® organization. Competencies that the Release Train Engineer Training provides you with Apply Lean-Agile knowledge and tools to optimize value creation.

  • What does management mean in the agile world? Malte’s thoughts.

    Engineering spent 1500 years on learning how to build a bridge and we are just 20-50 years in that process of building software in the organization. So we are bound to fail a lot of times. And we need to articulate what management means. Is it people in suits or a capability? In my opinion, it is more a capability to build a social structure.

  • Agile product development at Merck KGaA

    A suitable meeting structure ensured that the strategic and operational levels were in harmony: a portfolio strategy meeting was established in which new ideas and business opportunities are identified, prioritized and broken down into requirements and implemented via the sprint stages in an ongoing process. ​ On an operational level, Franziska Mast supported the team in the role of Agile Coach.

  • We design customer-oriented organizations that have the capability to deliver

    This is where experts are needed who can reduce these regulations to the essentials and stick to the actual requirements - not to the implementations that have already been decided in the organization. We are happy to help. We are happy to support you in making your organization more capable of delivering. Write us an e-mail, we will be happy to call you or arrange an appointment directly.

  • Prioritize and Say No Properly – A First-Hand Report

    For [user] the [requirement, benefit, opportunity] is [company/product/service] the [category] the [core benefit]. In contrast to [competition, alternative] is [differentiator]. Once this step was done, the team could use it to define their classes of service and SLA’s. (SLA= Service Level Agreement, i.e. a contractually guaranteed service, e.g. a product is shipped within 24 h).