How-to?

Attributes of sucessful teams

Inspired by the book “5 dysfunctions of teams” by Patric Lecioni we have build a positive systemic model about crucial attributes for effective teams. The five steps form a process with backwards directed loops ensuring and fostering the steps before. Build Trust of team members into the team and the team leader (aka Psychological Safety),…

If it has to be an agile project …

In the P4 framework the project is replaced by the development of a product or application version. The different designation should lead to more content related development project goals and not to goals that are arbitrary, and sometimes even contradictory. But what if the organization still “thinks” projects? Can’t we work agile then? If so,…

How to deal with predefined deadlines?

“… yes, but here the dates are always predefined!” From the point of view of those carrying out the work, this is often the case, perhaps simply because nobody knows where the current limits are or because the sales department demands more in order to get at least a little more. But how do we…