The Productivity Trap

The Productivity Trap

In business administration, but also in our perception, productivity always has something to do with making use of the time available. We must and want to use our time productively – and that is right and good. We should only ask ourselves whether the economy of...
If everything is equally important, then leadership has failed

If everything is equally important, then leadership has failed

How is it that projects, in spite of excellent planning, are delayed, quite delayed or even never finished? I’m not talking about the large-scale government projects that involve a lot of politics and tendering rules. I am talking about the projects that are...
How do I explain Flight Levels – to my grandma?

How do I explain Flight Levels – to my grandma?

That was a funny question today: how would you explain Flight Levels to your grandma? It’s actually quite simple: in a way that she understands. I love good food, and when it’s good, it can be (too) much. When grandma plans, prepares and cooks the Sunday...
SteamPunk Forecasting

SteamPunk Forecasting

Story points, business points, T-shirt sizes – either way, we try to frame our work in comparable terms. In the classical world, the effort was estimated, in the agile world it is the complexity of a task. How many points I can deliver in an iteration is what I...
SteamPunk Schooling

SteamPunk Schooling

Completely unexpectedly and without any warning, it seems, the state of Hessia has decided on new Corona restrictions. The local grammar school has been forced to rebalance its teaching – half of the pupils are allowed to go to school one week, while the other...