Project Management

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Even though it often doesn't feel that way, many obstacles are hidden opportunities. Peter Siwon explains how you can better cope with project frustration and helps you discover hidden resources in projects. You – yes, you – I mean! You, too, are among the adventurers in...

Systemic Principles in Project Management: Peter Siwon explains the systemic rules and principles for managing projects, also considering the human aspect of project success. As a young project manager, I often wondered: Why do my supposedly experienced colleagues...

Executing Complex Software Projects More Effectively with Agile Methods Come on, folks, we're going agile today, and starting tomorrow, our software projects will be purring like kittens! There are many indications that complex software projects can be executed more effectively using agile methods. This is primarily due to...

If you think you've now caught me making a typo in the headline, I might fall victim to the halo effect. This effect leads you to perceive me as incompetent in general, based solely on my spelling. The halo effect is a widespread and...

How are you doing right now? This isn't just a casual, polite phrase, the kind that's increasingly used to start phone calls. It always makes me feel a bit uneasy because I'm never quite sure if the caller is genuinely interested in how I'm feeling.

In my training sessions and coaching, I'm frequently asked: What are the key elements of good project management? My distillation of over 25 years of project work in various roles and countless discussions with seminar participants and colleagues boils down to five letters. Anyone who wants to can...

""Nix G'wies woaß ma ned" (footnote: Bavarian for "You can't say for sure") – this is a common saying in Bavaria when it comes to making difficult decisions. Similar expressions probably exist in every language. The variety of formulations that...

When people work together for a while, eventually what most people fear arises: conflict. The crazy thing is that they fear something as certain as the difference between two people, even if they are twins. Every person perceives their environment and their...

Whether a project gets off to a successful start depends on whether the stakeholders see a chance that their needs will be met during the project. Project success is threatened if this hope turns out to be an illusion as the project progresses. So it's worth reading on to understand the role...

Project work, in particular, constantly presents us with difficult decisions that often have to be made quickly. Whoever makes the decision takes responsibility and therefore also bears the risk of making the wrong choice. This makes decision-makers easy targets for scapegoating. No wonder...