Crunch Time
Welcome to ProjectCrunch!
After long preparations and many discussions about all kinds of questions regarding design, structure and content, ProjectCrunch finally goes online! Read…
Roman Mildner
Technology
The Excel Trap
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham H. Maslow Read…
Management
Business Process Modelling: Mission Impossible?
At first sight, the task appears easy: capture the business processes, visualize them in an easy-to-understand form, and use them as a basis for quality or efficiency improvement projects. This goal may seem trivial to Read…
Crunch Time
Viral Microprocesses – Micromanagement, Reloaded
“Mr. Consultant, this is really simple. Please just write down how you proceed with the use case specification step by step. This must be straightforward; you will surely have something like this ready-to-use in your drawer, right? The Customer is the King.” The brave consultant does not hesitate. “You will have the paper on your desk by tomorrow morning.” Read…
Management
Back to the Mediocrity Through Obligatory Process Definition?
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein Read…
Management
Process Optimization: Wishful Thinking or Reality?
“85% of the reasons for refusing to fulfil customer expectations you can trace back to failures of systems and processes, and less to people. The task of management is to change processes not the people.” (W.E. Deming) Read…
Management
What Is a Process?
Recently, everybody seems to be talking about “process improvement,” “process design,“ “process maturity, “ and so on. But what actually IS a process? Read…