Management 4.0: Handbook for Agile Practices, Release 3

Patrick Balve · Frank Edelkraut · Jens Köhler · Helge F. R. Nuhn · Steve Raue · Norbert Schaffitzel · Marcel Schwarzenberger · Hubertus Tuczek

Apr 2019 · Management 4.0 Book 3 · BoD – Books on Demand

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Who should read this Book? This book is written for anyone who is interested in agility or needs to be agile. It is for those who seek deeper knowledge about what keeps the agile world together. You can read it from the perspective of a top manager or decision maker who feels the urge to be more agile. But you can also take the book and just follow it from the perspective of a user. What do you get? - A systemic picture of agility - to enable you to analyse your system (your team, your department, your company or your business network) and identify fields of agile application and the specific need for agility. - The ingredients of an Agile Mindset - this allows you to transform your organization and develop an agile culture for your organization. - The theoretical foundation of agile principles - so that you can really understand and assess the value of all the expert ideas for you and your organization. You will get the necessary skills to tailor organization specific agile frameworks without losing essential ingredients. - Input for your own reflections - you will be capable of innovating agility and be ahead of the main stream.

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VISTEM GmbH & Co.KG., 64646 Heppenheim Founder and Principal Consultant at Speed4Projects.net and VISTEM, Wolfram brings 25 years of experience as a Consulting Executive, IT Project Portfolio and Project Manager, Process Engineer, and Software Engineer. As head of the PMO at 1&1 Internet AG, he led 40 project managers in the delivery of 500 projects, innovating industry-leading methods, to drive unprecedented improvements in speed and reliability across the portfolio. He has published over 20 articles and books on Critical Chain, Agile and Lean and is a well-known speaker in Europe on how to achieve hyper-productive IT project portfolios.

Heilbronn University, Faculty for Industrial and Process Engineering, 74081 Heilbronn He holds a master degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in International Project Management. After graduating, Dr. Balve spent five years in the field of consulting and research at the renowned Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. Since then, he has held various management positions in logistics and quality in the automotive industry. In 2009, Dr. Balve was appointed professor at Heilbronn University in the Faculty of Industrial and Process Engineering. He is director of the Manufacturing and Operations Management bachelor program and head of the Heilbronn Learning Factory. His fields of research include lean manufacturing systems and state-of-the-art project management approaches.

Accenture, 10117 Berlin He is an expert for strategic change and project management. He uses his expertise in communications, culture and behaviour analysis for an innovative approach to changing organizations in projects and team development. He is a Scrum Master and founding member of the professional group on Agile Management of the GPM (German Associations for Project Management e.V.). Steve is currently working on his doctorate in Cross-Cultural Complex Project Management, exploring implications for future project management based on systemic integration of conventional and agile project practices.

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