The term artificial intelligence (AI) comes up in the IT world time and time again – but what does it actually mean? The truth is, there’s no single generally accepted definition for artificial intelligence. In principle, the term describes systems which have the ability to perform activities normally associated with human intelligence, such as learning, logical… Continue Reading Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine
Being in cloud is just a start – it’s even more important to take advantage of the special opportunities provided by cloud computing, one of which is the almost unlimited scalability of the applications and services you make available through the cloud. However, you first need to make sure the services you use are cloud-native… Continue Reading Service Scaling Through Native Cloud Computing
In this age of the home office, it can be a challenge to deal with new ways of holding meetings. Every once in a while, online meetings turn into a delightful form of chaos, and the best thing to do is just shake your head and laugh. But just a few simple tips will turn… Continue Reading Getting the Most of Online Meetings and Workshops
Moving IT services to the cloud is currently a key issue for many companies. A critical factor in this move is not only making applications, databases and network structures cloud-appropriate, companies also need to consider how they’ll administer their cloud services in the future. In this blog article, we’ll share with you what we’ve learned from… Continue Reading Cloud Management – Possibilities and Success Factors
Rumors have been floating around the industry for some time that the IREB would be revising its “Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Foundation Level” certification, and the board has finally announced that it would be offering training and certification in CPRE Foundation Level 3.0 starting in the fall of 2020. Below, we present an initial… Continue Reading CPRE Foundation Level 3.0 – Preview of the New Standard Coming in Fall 2020
Consulting and project management thrive on working directly with people. However these crisis times, which sometimes even mean one’s social and professional life are locked down, mean work is moving increasingly into the home office, and suddenly teams are dislocated but still need to work together. Following are a few tips for working under such… Continue Reading Consulting and Project Management from the Home Office
How do you as a project manager manage the balancing act between nerd and organizer? Unless you have the superpowers shown in the image at the top of the page, our experience shows that “t-shaping” is one answer to this. In this blog article, our senior project manager Wolfgang Rauscher passes on his practical experience… Continue Reading T-Shaped Manager: Skills for Successful Projects
Think requirements specifications and functional specifications are too cumbersome and boring? You’re in luck! Agility’s the latest buzzword. Projects need to be implemented quickly. As a result, agile methods are what everyone’s talking about, and are being used for all stages of a project, from eliciting requirements to implementation. We’ve identified six success factors for… Continue Reading Agile Requirements Engineering – Success Factors for Implementing Agile Methods
“Why do we still need requirements? We’re agile!” Have you ever heard something like that? In these times of rapid innovation, just the term requirements engineering sounds pretty laborious. Nevertheless, just in view of the radical transformation of companies and business models, requirements engineering is playing a central role in managing digital transformation. However, making… Continue Reading Trends in Requirements Engineering – Methodological Digital Transformation
In 2017, municipal department MA 33 of the city of Vienna (Vienna Glows) launched a project to plan for the replacement of the conventional luminaires used on catenary suspensions to light public areas with modern, energy-efficient LED luminaires. These measures serve to save energy and to provide innovative energy efficiency as part of a “smart… Continue Reading Project management for luminaire replacement project of the city of Vienna (MA 33)
In 2018/2019, the Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS), a federal development and financing bank for the promotion and financing of companies, after drafting a requirements specification for a task tracking tool wanted to subject it to a quality assurance review. In addition, tendering support was set up for the requirements specification. The experts at Spirit in Projects… Continue Reading AWS task tracking tool – QA for requirements specification and tendering support
The municipal department of the city of Vienna, under a project called “Vienna Provides Space” is working to digitalize public areas. The goal of the program, which runs from 2017 to 2022, is to digitize processes for so-called special uses of public areas, all the way from application through official procedures and up to approval… Continue Reading Vienna provides space – digitalization of administrative proceedings