I have been asked a lot lately about strategies for change in the company and how agility can be carried in 100% of the areas of the company. My first answer is of course: 100% agile is unlikely to exist and agility doesn’t actually need a special change strategy. Agility can be seen in exactly the same way as the introduction of a product, or it can be introduced in the classic way according to Kotter’s change strategy. Every model has its origin in the considerations of Kurt Lewin, who classified a change in three phases in 1943. Basically, two forces work in organizations: own security strivings and habits that demand the maintenance of the status quonew technologies, executives new competitors who demand changes Kurt Lewin then established in 1947 that change only takes place as soon as the force of necessity for change is stronger than that of habit.…

“What leeway do you have in your projects to try out other approaches and to consciously go new, simple paths? To what extent do companies give project managers, scrum masters and product owners as well as consultants a free hand in choosing the procedure, in project planning, in communication or in the type of cooperation in the team (keyword self-organization)? And with which approaches are you successful? ” This is what the project magazine asks in the latest blog parade with the topic ” More success through new freedoms in the project “. I am happy to take part in this blog parade and answer the questions asked from my point of view. I am part of a team (with 5 people) that provides infrastructure services for a major customer. The product is a mixture of hardware and software such as a car, airplane or an ICE. So that the…

I often take part in expert interviews on the blog and thus help students and other researchers. I am often asked about my assessment of the following question: How agile / digital do companies become? The question is often aimed at 5 or even 15 years. On the other hand, I am also asked the question in another form: Will only agile companies survive?Do all companies have to become agile? Furthermore, the Andre Häusling’s blog parade with the question: “Is agility an obsolete model or a future model?” and the hashtag AgileDeadOrAlive to this article. I would therefore like to write a blog article with my assessment. I will go into this a little further and give a specific answer. However, this is only my personal opinion. 2 theses on agility and digitization of companies In my PhD I have a roundtable carried out. This brought together 12 board members…

You have been playing with the idea for a long time more agility in your company bring to? Do you want to know how agility is structured? Here is a guide to what to look out for if you want to introduce an agile business organization. 5 pillars for agile business organization Agility arises from the realization of 5 important dimensions. If you observe these measures, an agile business organization can be implemented much more easily in your company. Or they make it through to lead even more agile . Target image In order to introduce agility and, in particular, an agile company organization, a vision is required first of all. What should be changed? Just project or product management or the entire company? As a manager, you should therefore ask yourself to what extent the company should become more agile. This applies above all to the areas of personnel…

In the IT sector, DevOps has been gaining in importance for a long time. But what is actually behind the term and what is the aim of the concept? We get to the bottom of these and other questions. What is DevOps actually? The term DevOps is a combination of the English words “Development” and “Operation”. The concept originating from the IT sector deals with practices for automating processes between software development and IT. The aim is to accelerate the development of software solutions and then to test and release them more quickly. In order to unite the strengths of software developers and IT teams in the course of this, the concept specifies to link the areas more closely with one another. More integration and new perspectives instead of working in isolation. For this, DevOps makes use of techniques such as agile or continuous delivery. The goal behind it: Gaining…