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Agile history and principles

By now, every manager in the field of product development has probably heard the term Scrum. But very few will know that Scrum or agile working has its origins exactly there, i.e. in the development of physical products.

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Scrum

Customer and market requirements are changing ever faster and product complexity is constantly increasing. Change is becoming the norm. Scrum is an agile method that helps you master this situation and keep change costs low.

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Scrum in a nutshell

In order to provide a better understanding of the topic of "Agile Transformation", especially for readers of our homepage who are inexperienced in this area, we have summarised the essential terms of the Scrum framework again here.

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Kanban

Kanban in combination with Shopfloor Management brings flow back into R&D. Kanban lends itself to task control in the line organisation of a multi-project management environment. Among other things, it provides more transparency.

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LEGO-Workshop

In our workshop, you will learn about scaled Scrum - in the development of a remote-controlled LEGO-eCar. Participants experience the benefits of the method and are able to transfer what they have experienced to real situations in their work environment.

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Scaling

Two success factors are small, autonomous teams and empirical process control. But with a small team, larger complex development projects cannot be realised. This is where scaling frameworks come into play.

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COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

A guild - also called a CoP - is a cross-team association of people interested in a topic. As a rule, these are specialist disciplines such as construction.

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PDP IN THE BACKLOG

We show you how the product development process (PDP) and agile working fit together and can even complement each other ideally.

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Scoring model

There are usually more proposals for product development projects in any company than available resources. How do you choose the "right" ones? A pragmatic approach: The scoring model.

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The context diagram

The context diagram is a visualisation method. It identifies interfaces of all "stakeholders" involved in the development process, the components/systems to be integrated, legal principles, standards and application situations are recorded.

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Agile pilot project

You gain your first practical experience in a pilot project. Here you can test agility and evaluate what benefits this way of working brings to your company. But what should you consider in your first agile pilot?

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Working agreement

How does a team manage to maintain the necessary clarity for cooperation under the changing framework conditions?

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Role definitions in the company

With role definition in your organisation, you ensure that your employees know what is expected of them and how they can contribute to achieving the organisation's goals. We give you impulses to increase efficiency, improve cooperation and achieve goals.

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Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

Use Quality Function Deployment to create transparency about the interactions between customer needs and product features, and to identify and demonstrate the importance of product features and components.

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