On this page I have collected some of my practice experiences which I would like to share with you. Perhaps there is something helpful for you and your projects in it. And I’m glad if you provide your own experiences with your comments thus enhancing the knowledge base for all
Have you ever been uncomfortable, too, that more and more companies solely offer online application for jobs? Sure, recruiters, internal or external professionals, have their work eased a lot if all the entries are done by the applicants, and they only have to run a key word algorithm on the
Ein Kanban Board ist ein probates Mittel, um die „Work in Progress“ in kleineren bis mittleren Initiativen vom Team selbstorganisiert zu steuern. Jeder sieht sofort die Aufgaben, die anstehen, die in Bearbeitung oder abgeschlossen sind. Ein wenig Disziplin ist zwar schon vonnöten, damit jeder seine Aufgabe auch entsprechend dem Bearbeitungsstatus
Management ist nur dann wirklich nötig, wenn Multitasking ermöglicht werden muss, z.B. um optimale Auslastung zu erzeugen. Man kann z.B. den Management-Aufwand reduzieren, wenn man einer Aufgabe einfach mehr Zeit (Puffer) einräumt. Finden Sie den Punkt in der gesamtheitlichen Optimierung, an dem das Herunterfahren von Management mittels mehr Zeit für
Good preparation and planning of activities helps to get things come together well, and to be able to concentrate on the actual task. Already 8-10 minutes for a brief planning of the day can make you win up to an hour of effective time – statistically proven ! Consider your
Meetings are time eaters, but often necessary to get a bunch of people on same information level and/or receive decisions. Daily team meetings, so called “Stand-ups”, are helpful to coordinate the just completed tasks and the ones ahead. If held standing (so that nobody may lean back comfortably) and lasting
Sometimes people do not feel really responsible for tasks even if they are assigned to them. They rather flee into compensational actions or try to shunt it to someone else. This mostly happens if they feel to be only a little (unimportant) wheel in the big gear box. Sense of
If at questionnaires with scaling questions (e.g. very bad <—> very good) you regularly get a checkmark in the middle of the scale, try it with a pair count of possible answers. That forces the candidate to choose a tendency for his “average” rating – and the answers will become
