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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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“. These three basic […]

One of the central tasks in project management is to make complexity manageable. Transparency, communication and rhythm help to achieve this. And just when a virus seems to drive complexity into immeasurable proportions, these three basic steps are essential. On the one hand, it may almost be desirable to be able to work from home. […]

Many of today’s companies follow a hierarchical organizational model that strictly separates tasks and departments from one another and arranges them in a pyramidal system: purchasing, development, controlling, HR, etc. This organizational design has produced a control mechanism that consists of two directions:The instruction flows top-down and the teams are controlled from bottom to top […]

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, […]

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. That’s what the agile [bu: st] process management eyeLean […]

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 […]

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. Bernhard Pollety, CEO [bu:st] automotive, opened the conference with a short opener on the topic. […]

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. What are the goals of agile project management? In our fast-paced world agile project […]

One of the main tasks of project management in complex projects is to master the complexity. Our project management method helps with three steps. Complexity in Project Management A complete project management method distinguishes excellent project management from good project management. Planned or unscheduled and desired or mandatory changes in the company can be implemented […]

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 […]