Rainer Grau
Lean PPM – step 13: Documentation consumer type 3: SW engineers, subject matter experts, technical experts

Lean PPM – step 13: Documentation consumer type 3: SW engineers, subject matter experts, technical experts

SW (SoftWare) engineers and experts do not have an interest in documentation. SW engineers as well as experts have an...

Lean PPM – step 12: Documentation consumer type 2: project leads, business analysts, (requirements and software) engineers,  or likewise folks

Lean PPM – step 12: Documentation consumer type 2: project leads, business analysts, (requirements and software) engineers, or likewise folks

Prolbares (= project leads, business analyst and requirements engineers) express a lot more needs in documentation. Prolbares are around on...

Lean PPM – step 11: Documentation consumer type 1: executive managers

Lean PPM – step 11: Documentation consumer type 1: executive managers

Executive managers do not have a lot of time. They are keen people… I am sorry to break your flow...

Lean PPM – step 10: Consumers of documentation and their needs

Lean PPM – step 10: Consumers of documentation and their needs

In my last blog I pointed out why there is a need for documentation. What we at digitec Galaxus figured...

Lean PPM step 9: Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

Lean PPM step 9: Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

I promised to talk about documentation – quite a while ago, I know – sorry… Documentation is a very special...

Lean PPM step 8: about project leads and business analysts…

Lean PPM step 8: about project leads and business analysts…

In some of blogs I mentioned that our organization knows the job position of project lead and business analyst. Especially...

Lean PPM step 7: The relevance of slack time

Lean PPM step 7: The relevance of slack time

Then there is slack time. Engineering explicitly owns 20% of their capacity for themselves. I am personally convinced that every...

Lean PPM step 6: more details on the demand

Lean PPM step 6: more details on the demand

My last blog discussed the demand capacity game on a coarse grained level based on initiatives in our Kanban board....

Lean PPM step 5: The demand – capacity game at Digitec /Galaxus

Lean PPM step 5: The demand – capacity game at Digitec /Galaxus

In this blog I talk about the challenging task of the demand – capacity balance in PPM, or the problem...

Lean PPM step 4: The life cycle of an initiative

Lean PPM step 4: The life cycle of an initiative

In my last blog I introduced you to the roadmap as seeding mechanism for our portfolio management. In this blog...