Management

Management is the art of coordinating people who do not work together on a daily basis. While working collaboratively is preferred, using management is sometimes inevitable. Here, I will talk about tools and techniques to improve your management style.

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Projects

Game Design

Game Design

We help you with brainstorming or with turning your ideas into games or general card sets for meetings from idea to publishing and marketing.

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Apps

Apps

We help you to design, program, publish, and run your mobile application. Let us know about your idea and we give you an estimate for the initial prototype.

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Presentations

Presentations

Mastering presentations is essential to delivering your message. An effective presentation consists of visual elements, a confident posture and speech, vocal clarity, and a clean, professional-looking video image. Our coaches can help you to master each discipline. Given the ongoing pandemic, and the decision by many companies to move workplaces to home offices, your presentation skills are more important now than ever.

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Publishing

Publishing

We can support your project from concept to publication. Depending on the current state of your manuscript, video, website, or social media profiles, we offer services to edit or convert your existing materials and publish them on various platforms (print, online, YouTube, Facebook, etc.) in the required formats, image size, video encoding, and text length.

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Organization

Organization

We are ready to help you streamline your product development. With more than a decade of industry experience, we can show you ways to build products that best suit your customers' needs. No matter whether you want to write a book, release software, deploy an app or website, or build a car—the underlying principles are always the same.

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Blog posts

Optimizing Your To-Do List: Strategic Backlog Management with the INVEST Method
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Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Optimizing Your To-Do List: Strategic Backlog Management with the INVEST Method

Maximize your productivity with our expert guide on backlog management using the INVEST criteria and the dual hat method. Streamline your workflow and achieve peak efficiency!

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Optimizing Your Writing Desk Setup: Ergonomics & Essentials
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Optimizing Your Writing Desk Setup: Ergonomics & Essentials

Discover how to transform your writing space for maximum comfort and productivity, from ergonomic gadgets to ideal desk setups tailored for writers.

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The Agile Transformation Blueprint: A Step-by-Step Guide for Companies
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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The Agile Transformation Blueprint: A Step-by-Step Guide for Companies

Dive into a comprehensive guide on agile transformation, understanding the role of an agile coach, and the steps to transition your company to agile methodologies within 3-6 months.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Unraveling the Myth that Agile is Always Faster
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Agile vs. Waterfall: Does Agile Really Mean Faster Project Completion?

Explore the nuanced relationship between Agile methodologies and project speed. Does Agile always outpace Waterfall? Uncover the factors that influence speed, cost, and efficiency.

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Navigating Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Introducing OKRs to Your Team
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Unlocking Team Potential: A Guide to Introducing OKRs

Learn how Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) can transform your team's effectiveness and productivity. Understand how OKRs can reduce work-in-progress and minimize interruptions.

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Don't Be a Putin in Your Organization
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Don't Be a Putin in Your Organization

Hierarchies can help you to organize your company, but they also come with problems. Here, I explain the necessary leadership style for efficient projects.

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Agile without a Backlog
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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What Is a Backlog and Do I Need One?

As an exercise, try to completely eliminate your project's backlog and think about what effects this would have on your team. Could this be a way to improve?

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 How to Organize Your Ideas
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How to Write a Non-Fiction Book

Reader of non-fiction books have a specific problem, need, or interest, and you are trying to solve it by providing instructions or information.‍

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An Introduction… to StarCraft
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Understanding Management by Playing Real Strategy Games

For an Agile coach, having a team with such background knowledge can help to speed up the acceptance and learning process of self-management.

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Our Scrum Is Special
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Adapt Management to Agile or Agile to Management?

This article discusses the malpractice of changing proven agile principles to fit your existing management processes instead of focusing on core agile values.

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Kanban and StarCraft
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How do Kanban and Scrum compare with StarCraft?

This article examines the parallels between the challenges for a player of real time strategy games and agile coaches that want to help to transform a company.

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Multidisciplinary Teams in Scrum
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why Rotating People Between Teams Might be a Good Idea

This article discusses the malpractice of many companies to use Scrum while still living and breathing a compartmentalized company structure.

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The General
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why a Clean Organizational Hierarchy helps with Management

When implementing Agile methodology, some things are often overlooked: the organizational structure, the culture of the organization, and the people involved.

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Idle Hands are the Manager’s Workshop
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why You Should not Worry About Idle Time at Work

Using examples from the real time strategy game StarCraft, this article explains why idling resources might even speed up your production process.

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Evolutionary Improvements
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March 11, 2023
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The Advantage of Small Improvement Increments

When introducing agile methods, small improvements might lead to better results than a revolution. The advantage is the constant feedback you get at each step.

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Scrum and Jira: A Love-Hate Relationship
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Steps to Bring Your Agile Project Back on Track

Usually, the Scrum process is employed by using little stickers, and moving them around on a physical board. Jira makes that easier, but it comes at a cost.

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To the Frontlines
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How are Agile Methods comparable to Managing a Frontline?

Kanban accepts a non-optimal situation: teams are not 100 percent dedicated to a project, and project work is done in phases outside the core team.

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Automate Your Definition of Done
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Reducing Repetitive Work in JIRA

With this Plugin, you can automate your definition of done (DoD) by creating templates and having them added to each new task in JIRA automatically.

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Scouting the Market
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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The Similarities of "Scouting" in Games and Marketing

Knowing how to deal with a "fog of war" in real time strategy games like StarCraft can help understanding and teaching the principles of marketing.

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Team Communication
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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How Soft Skills Translate from Computer Games to Business

Team-building exercises involving computer games can help participants to train soft-skills like dealing with frustration as well as communication skills.

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In Scrum, Ownership Matters
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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From “Command and Control” to “Innovative Agile Management"

This article discusses how “ownership” describes how a knowledge worker needs to be part of the whole process and not just be a specialist in a department.

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Keep Some Energy in Reserve
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How a 100% Workload Slows You Down

Taking no breaks is a local optimization which might ultimately slow down your project. Instead, try to distribute workload in the team or try XP instead.

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A Closer Look at the Numbers
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Why Agile is not about Speed

A better indicator how well your project goes along is how much value you produce for your customers throughout the time of your project, not just at the end.

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Sprinting to Delivery
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why Sprints and Delivery should be Completely Disconnected

This article discusses how the idea of delivering products at the end of sprints contradicts agilty. Agility is about delivering working software frequently.

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When Growing Gets Tough
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How to ‍Handle Multiple Teams in Scrum

Applying the principles of Scrum in a larger organization with multiple teams can be challenging. This article discusses a number of improvement ideas.

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Daily Scrum with Jira
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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7 Ideas of How to Use JIRA Effectively During Dailies

This article gives you a 7 small ideas of how to improve your daily standups. Maybe try NOT using JIRA next time and try using stickers instead?

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Our Brainstorming Services

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The best time to get a coach on board? At the beginning of your writing process or once you have decided on your topic and tried your hand at an outline.
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Our Process Modeling Services

Turn your business into a diagram

Through interviews and using lean and agile principles, we visualize and optimize your existing work processes to reduce waste and increase productivity.
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Make your Meetings Matter

Effective meetings begin with an announcement and end on time. Learn techniques to achieve the goal of your meeting and effectively gather feedback.
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