With the study “Status Quo Agile” from 2015 on Lean Management? has Bernd Albrecht investigated the question of to what extent Lean Management has established itself in corporate reality. 319 participants responded to the call to participate in the online survey from May to October 2015. All 17,866 responses of the participants were analysed for the evaluation. The 319 respondents were guided…
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Agil on a large scale a SUCCESSThe 10th annual State of Agile™ survey makes it clear that agile software development has become increasingly popular in the last ten years. The number of participants in this survey has more than tripled. In 2006 >2006 there were fewer than strong>thousandparticipants in the year, while in the most recent survey…
Cracking new times at Daimler? In an interview with Wirtschaftswoche, Daimler CEO Zetsche explains how the company is reinventing itself (in part). Decision-making processes are radically questioned, hierarchies made more permeable, swarm organization introduced. And this despite the fact that the company is currently particularly successful. Unusual?At least courageous. If things go well, you might…
Who plays what role in PMO? Basically, we distinguish between two forms of PMO. There is one PMO, which is directly assigned to the individual project and plays an important role in large projects. These PMOs include the scheduler, the test coordinator, the project assistant and, if necessary, other roles specific to the individual project. On…
Why PMOs fail – and how you can work against them The introduction of a PMO is time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive and is likely to fail. Not a very promising start, I know. But you kept reading anyway, that’s good! That means you don’t give up so quickly. It also means that, despite all the adversity, you…
2016 was the year in which “Industry 4.0” became concrete projects. This was also the view of Gartner’s market researchers and analysts. In this case, a study stated: “Digitalization moves from an innovative trend to a core competency”. A statement that is still true. Above all, the company boundaries between the supplier and the supplier…
Summary The crisis situations in projects are always similar. Most actors in crisis projects already have a gut feeling in the early phases to recognize such projects. But there are reasons why these findings remain hidden, problems are not dealt with and no appropriate countermeasures are taken. A 2006 survey by Leon A. Kappelman, Robert…
Why the coach in PMO is the only true solution Why the coach in PMO is the only true solutionBurnout in project management is an ongoing topic and new studies are published almost monthly. A study of the German society for project management (GPM) comes to particularly frightening results: More than a third of all…
As numerous studies have proven for years, companies with a Project Management Office have more success in the project business! I can only confirm this argumentative essay to successfully start and lead PMOs from practice. Is the introduction of a PMO really worthwhile? The introduction of a Project Management Office is inevitably associated with difficulties. That’s…