Visualizing farmland property prices in germany based on 2016 sales with kepler.gl

In this blog post I will tell a small data story about farmland prices based on data of 2016. The data is mainly given by Statisches Bundesamt and Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe and the visualizations are made with the awesome open source library kepler.gl created by Shan He and her data visualization team at Uber.

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Series business value 2: Example business application with microservices

In this blog post I will describe an example application that is based on the ideas given in the blog post Business value driven architecture with microservices. You can see that it is technical but it also includes some simple ideas that make software engineering a lot easier and a lot more usable for the end Read more about Series business value 2: Example business application with microservices[…]

Project portfolio management

There is a lot of literature about project management but what should you do if you do not only manage one project but multiple. This is called portfolio management and this blog post will cover our experiences at incentergy in portfolio optimization.

Portfolio Management

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Project risk management. Do risky tasks first

Playing risk for project management
Image by Tambako The Jaguar

Projects are by definition a risky thing. Risk means that it might take longer, they do not meet their goals or will be more expensive than expected. This blog post will describe a simple but effective way of managing and reducing risks.

Especially projects in the IT world are likely to fail. In the last 20 years around 20%-30% of projects failed without delivering any value. Further 30% were challenged meaning they overrun budget or time.

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Softskills in project management

This article will give a short introduction about softskills and stress management in a project. This is necessary because if projects fail then in 80% of the cases it is a problem between multiple human beings and not a technical problem.

Men lying on the keyboard because of stress
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Workforce organzation and management for real world teams outside of IT

In the IT world we have a lot of systems to organize our daily business. Process models tell us how to do our work but what about models for outside IT? How should for example an accountant office organize their workforce and their tasks?
This blog post will introduce a queue based model that emphasizes on process throughput and process enhancements for knowledge workers. It is inspired by Kanban.

Workforce management with queues

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The most important software piece the domain model

This blog post will elaborate on the most important part of a good software system: the domain model. As everybody knows business software is for IT alignment making sure that the organizational processes are optimally supported by a system. This can only be done if the data in the system is correct and represents the domain objects in a good way.

Survey entities perspective

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