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When Does a Project Become Operations? Four Signs Instead of a Go-Live Date

Related course: Getting results into operations

On go-live day, responsibility changes hands on paper. How to tell whether it has reached day-to-day work as well, and why getting there is part of the project.

Agile Team Coaching: What a Workshop Actually Delivers — and What Only Comes After

Seven building blocks from coaching a team, from settling the brief to anchoring the work in a weekly rhythm.

Flow Efficiency: Where the 5–15% Figure Comes From — and Why No Normal Value Holds Up

Related course: Getting results into operations

The rule of thumb turns up in talks, training decks and tooling. A search for the primary source comes up empty — and the one published measurement says something different.

AI in Project Management — Where It Helps and Where It Doesn't

Related course: Managing projects with AI

Where artificial intelligence genuinely takes work off your hands in projects, where it reliably gets things wrong, and what the legal position is — along with the pattern behind both.

Stakeholder analysis — why the list can be complete and the analysis still worthless

Related course: Managing projects with AI

How a stakeholder analysis is structured, which matrix works when, and where a language model helps — including the part it must not see for data protection reasons.

Creating a Work Breakdown Structure — What a Language Model Takes Off Your Plate and What It Doesn't

Related course: Managing projects with AI

How a work breakdown structure is built, which structure holds up when, and where a language model helps you create one — and where it reliably gets things wrong.

Agile Project Management: Course, Training or Qualification — Which Fits When?

Related course: Choosing your agile approach

Course, training, workshop, qualification: the words are used interchangeably but describe formats with very different outcomes. A guide to sorting it out before time and budget are committed.

The AI Act is not a compliance project. It is a maturity test.

Related course: AI literacy under Article 4 of the EU AI Act

Most companies treat the AI Act as a compliance issue. The real problem is a different one: hardly anyone knows which AI is actually running in the organisation.

Agile transformation: workshop, training or consulting — what fits when?

Related course: Agile transformation: consulting and support

Workshop, training or consulting — when each format of an agile transformation helps, and what makes most initiatives fail.

The Cynefin Framework: Why the Situation Determines the Method

Related course: Choosing your agile approach

Scrum isn't the right fit for every project. The Cynefin framework shows when Scrum helps and when traditional project management is the better choice, with SpaceX and Boeing as an example.

SpaceX flies. Boeing struggles. What this has to do with your choice of methodology.

Related course: Choosing your agile approach

Boeing got more money. SpaceX won. What the NASA contract teaches us about methodology choice in project management – and what this means for your projects.

From Project to Platform: Why I Built a Course on AI in Project Management

Related course: Managing projects with AI

How questions from my own project work turned into the course “Managing projects with AI”, who is responsible for what, and where AI helped along the way.

AI in Projects: How Far Along Germany Really Is

Related course: Managing projects with AI

41% of German companies are actively using AI – but how well does it actually work in projects? An honest look at the numbers, stumbling blocks, and what really counts in practice.

The 3-Level Alignment Model: My Kickoff Framework for Projects That Actually Get Going

Related course: Choosing your agile approach

The 3-Level Alignment Model — objectives, roles, expectations — and a template you can apply right away.

Theory Meets Practice: What a PRINCE2 Training Course Teaches Us About the Real Reasons Projects Fail

Related course: Choosing your agile approach

PRINCE2 doesn't fail. Projects fail. And most of the time, not because nobody knows the method. But because nobody applies it consistently. What a recent PRINCE2 course showed about the real reasons projects fail.