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A guideline on how to engage a task force successfully

Deadlines and costs blowing the defined scope, and quality doesn’t match the defined specifics and requirements of the customer. The project scope seems unattainable. Transparency towards the overall project status and a coordinated approach? Negative! What sounds like the horror scenario of every project manager is pure reality in some projects. A lot of companies therefore use task forces to solve suddenly occurring problems. This guideline explains how to successfully deploy a task force.

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Keep Distance – Stay Together: Maintain Virtual Team Cohesion with Empathetic Leadership and Targeted Methodology.

In the face of the "crisis without a blueprint", employees are experiencing great insecurity not only in their private lives but also at work - "new work" is real from one day to the next. The people in a team are the ones who let employees go to work, even if it's not so much fun at times. From one day to the next, you as a manager must be able to trust that team cohesion also functions virtually - for mental resilience in the team and for economic survival. Read in six sections how to maintain virtual team cohesion with empathic leadership and targeted methodology.

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How to Run Remote Workshops Successfully - A Guideline For Setup And Method Selection

The principle of networking is accelerating change in society. Information is available anywhere, anytime. Digital communication technologies are increasingly determining our working environments. Virtual teams are working from all different parts of the world. People have the freedom of choice – to meet up in person or virtually sitting in their home office. Megatrends such as globalization, digitization and mobilization are fundamentally changing our private and working lives. New solutions are required – for your own work and for virtual collaboration.

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12 steps to successfully manage your projects „remotely“ in crisis situations

An unexpected situation like the shutdown due to the corona virus (COVID-19) forces you and your project team to work 100% remotely. These three basic principles will help you now: Transparency, Communication and Rhythm. We have summarized in 12 steps how you can continue to manage your projects successfully, just now „remote“.

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"Remote" is the magic word! - How to successfully manage projects from home office in times of Corona.

Remote means "not in close proximity" - important to protect ourselves and others from corona. Remote also means "connected by computers and communication equipment" - important to keep projects running successfully!

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Why agile excellence is not a question of methods and tools, but of the mindset.

Companies are increasingly adopting agile working methods, with most of them initially only at the tip of the iceberg. Agile has become a trend. A trend that everyone thinks they understand, but which only very few have penetrated. And this is exactly the problem. A plea for more personal responsibility and trust.

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[bu:st] Campus 2019: Playful from Agile Doing to Agile Being

Over a hundred players in six groups, a two-day exploratory trip and several destinations: How can we develop further, how can we learn in a playful way and what can we give our customers in the process? On the two-day campus of [bu:st], the so-called Agile Dynamics Game was a game of strong tactics, dice, haggling, but also learning from colleagues and last but not least a lot of laughter.

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The two loops of the [bu:st] process management method eyeLean

In this article we would like to introduce you to parts of the [bu:st] process management method eyeLean. The method has emerged from experience and has proven to help our client to view their situation from a new perspective and to lead the project to success.

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The Product Owner - Hidden Champion in the Scrum Team?

In agile product development, the product owner (PO) is one of the three key figures in the scrum team. He is responsible for the delivery of the product, ensures smooth process management with his methods and is supported in the development team by the scrum master. In contrast to the scrum master, the PO often stands in the background - also because of the supposed similarity to the role of the project leader. The project manager is responsible for achieving the project goals, while the product owner represents the interests of the customer as well as their requirements and expectations for the product.

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Impressions of the Rethinking Work & Learning Conference

At the beginning of April 2019 we invited together with our partner Celemi to the 1st Rethink Work & Learning Conference. Approximately 70 participants accepted this invitation - mostly decision-makers from large and medium-sized companies from all sectors in Germany.

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Agile – what is behind it and does it actually solve all project management questions of our time?

This combination of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity is called VUCA. In today´s VUCA world, conventional project management methods that have been proven for complicated system reach their limits. Agile project management offers a much-discussed and prominent solution in many areas.

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Interview: The Balanced Learning Model as a basis for better qualification opportunities in the company and sustainable training successes

If you want to be an employer in the War for Talents, you need the right Learning Ecosystem to offer attractive and efficient - in short, better - qualification opportunities in your company in a world of digital natives. At the same time, a growing customer base and rapid technical and social developments are constantly placing new demands on the knowledge of employees. With the Balanced Learning Model, we have developed a model with which you and your team can master exactly these challenges. The result is improved learning processes and sustainable training success. We asked our expert Nicola Prinz about this topic.

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The Mastery of Complexity is Transparency, Communication, and Rhythm

One of the main tasks of project management in complex projects is to master the complexity. Our project management method helps with three steps.

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