Knowledge and skills – both are needed in working life and both can be developed. The information can be learned; Skill mapping often requires more time and attitude. The five most important skills in 2019 are creativity, persuation, collaboration, adaptability and time management.
Cultural Empathy Requires You to Understand or Accept the Other Person
“It is important to realize that understanding an action is not the same as accepting it.” This quote by Arman Alizad made me think about different cultures and how to successfully work with different people. Read this blog to find out more!
SAFe+JIRA = the Perfect Pair for Agile Development and Enterprise Resource Planning?
SAFe and JIRA is the biggest love story of the centrury! In our blog we will tell you, why this pair goes so perfectly together. Read it and join us for the wedding planning!
Agile Product Development Requires Changing Your Way of Thinking
Trying to become an agile product development organization? Go ahead. Pictures are glued, patched up with plaster and fixed with chewing gum. But you cannot glue, patch or fix a change. That is why no product development process, much less an organization, can become agile or able to learn just by deciding it.
Product Owner – the Product Manager’s Tenant or Owner of the Product?
In many organizations, the responsibilities of Product Manager and Product Owner are happily overlapping. When responsibilities are similar, there is a risk that tasks become so unclear that something essential remains to be done.
The Concept of Project Is the Greatest Bluff of the 20th Century
One ultimatum of agile methods is to make projects unnecessary. But what does this mean? Will we not try to finish anything anymore? Or do we not need a plan for work anymore? If successful, the agile method is better in both respects: it helps us achieve more and plan more efficiently.
Is Self-Management Real? – Contribyte’s Own Experiences with Self-Management
In future-forward companies, self-management has already been a topic of discussion for a long time. According to theory, people gravitate towards doing the things in which they can best produce value for their organization.
Personal Work Management as a Tool for Making Organizations More Efficient
People can be incredibly bad at managing their workload and priorities. I have all too infrequently come across people who always have openings in their calendar, who get things done on time, and who, in addition, are still up-to-date on what the others are doing. Such people, however, are the truly efficient ones.