Quick and Easy: This is New in the PMBOK Guide Edition 7
Founded in 1969 in the USA, the Project Management Institute is a global non-profit project management association. In 2020, the institute counted more than 600,000 members in over 200 countries,...
View ArticleEfficient Time Management with the Getting-Things-Done Method (GTD)
Do you know this situation? You have a thousand things to do, your email inbox is full, several chat messages are waiting to be answered and in that moment the phone is ringing? How are you supposed to...
View ArticleUse Case Template: InLoox for Human Resource Management
Nowadays, a company's HR department no longer serves just as a "middleman" between employee and employer. In our modern working world, HR is an autonomous organizational unit that takes care of all...
View ArticleGet to Know InLoox: Annalena - Working Student Marketing at InLoox...
Annalena joined InLoox in early 2020 as a working student for content & cocial media management. In the marketing team, she is responsible for our InLoox blog. Here she researches and creates...
View ArticleSAFe Simply Explained (Part 2): Basic Idea and Most Important Terms
The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. In the previous part of this series,...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Idea: The Four Rules of Brainstorming
Did you know that the word brainstorming is derived from the phrase "using the brain to storm a problem"? The goal is to find an optimal solution to a problem through intensive creative thinking - and...
View ArticleQuick and Easy: How to Manage Your Tasks with the Eisenhower Principle
The Eisenhower Matrix was named after the former US president of the same name, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is said to have developed this method and even taught it himself. To this day, the Eisenhower...
View ArticleMind Mapping: 5 Hands-on Tips for the Popular Visualization Technique
Mind mapping is a well-known allround method for decision-making, creativity and structuring processes. The technique was invented in the 1970s by the british author Tony Buzan, with the aim to achieve...
View ArticleManagement Basics: The 5 Principles of the Kaizen Philosophy
Kaizen is a life and work philosophy that originated in Japanese manufacturing technology, particularly in the post-war automotive industry. Today, this way of thinking is also considered an important...
View ArticleManagement Tips: 6 Pitfalls When Managing Your OKRs
Objective and Key Results (OKR) are a widely used agile planning and management method in which sub-goals of individual employees and teams are aligned with the holistic corporate strategy at regular...
View Article20 Years & 20 Success Stories: InLoox Anniversary E-Book
The hands-on success stories describe the challenges companies from various industries faced, how they structured their project management and which advantages they achieved by using InLoox. Download...
View Article"Scrumban" - 5 Kanban Practices That Will Help Your Scrum Team
Does this seem familiar? A new sprint is coming up and with it thousands of pending tasks, an unclear allocation of tasks and confusing priorities? In this article we will show you how to bring order...
View ArticleThe Difference Between OKRs and KPIs
Brief definition: OKROKR is the abbreviation for "Objectives and Key Results". It is a leadership or management method that focuses on the definition of goals. Individual objectives are defined for a...
View ArticleGet To Know Inloox: Martin - Software Engineer and Employee from “Day One”
Martin has been working for InLoox since October 2007 and is therefore the oldest employee in our company. Today, he supports our development team as a software architect with his many years of...
View ArticleRisk Management in Projects (1) – Introduction
New blog series on risk management in projectsIn the coming weeks, we will focus on a very relevant topic in project management: Risk management. This area of project management is very important, as...
View ArticleRisk management (2) - The FMEA method
Risk analysis with the FMEA methodThe abbreviation FMEA stands for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. The FMEA method is therefore much more than just a risk management method. It is a much more...
View ArticleRisk Management (3) - The Risk Catalog
Introduction: The risk catalogThe risk catalog - also called risk inventory - can serve as a basis for a risk analysis or the FMEA method. This method also offers many advantages when used on its own.A...
View ArticleBest of 2021: Here Are Your Favorite Blog Posts This Year
In 2020 the top positions were dominated by posts on working from home and knowledge management. As the pandemic is far from over, this year's list includes our personal lessons learned from a year of...
View ArticleFrom Our Team to Yours: Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year
We want to thank you for your continued trust in us and will continue to do our best to offer you high quality and informative content on the topics project management, leadership, productivity and...
View ArticleThe 9 Biggest Project Management Trends in 2022
ContentRemote work & leadershipBigger focus on soft skillsProfessionalization of project management & increasing demand for project managersAgile is here to stayValue and principle-based...
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