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Management teams: The better alternative?!

June 11, 2023June 12, 2023 Oliver Schönfeld 1 Comment

The P4-Dev framework provides a comprehensive approach to product development, particularly one that leverages pragmatic, lean, and agile practices. The three key roles within this framework are the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the System Engineer, each of which has distinct responsibilities but also have to work in harmony to ensure the successful execution…

The hero and the team

August 6, 2020September 25, 2020 Oliver Schönfeld Leave a comment

… or how little things affect team performance. Some time ago I accompanied a team that had recently started using agile methods. The task of the team was to create test cases for a large system and to maintain them. The team had recently started to estimate the effort to create test cases using “story…

Task Forces – the dark side of project management

April 18, 2019October 30, 2021 Oliver Schönfeld 1 Comment

Task forces have been established as a fire-fighting measure in project management when projects are in trouble or are seriously delayed. Usually they occur relatively late in the project, when nothing else worked. Interestingly, they usually work relatively well, as they are given the highest priority. Also, leaders of task forces are often celebrated as…