Category Archives: remote working

Linchpin: KIWI First: And the Winner Is – a Social Intranet!

Linchpin CAS AG intranet

At CAS AG, everything revolves around KIWI, CAS AG’s social intranet. Strictly speaking, it is an implementation of Linchpin Intranet Suite from Seibert Media, which is built upon the knowledge management system Confluence from Atlassian. Read this blog to find out where the name came from and to watch a video of the presentation two representatives of the company gave at Tools4AgileTeams 2020.

Linchpin Hey Is More Than a Social Intranet: From Congratulations and Hey Fives to Confetti

linchpin hey congratulations hey fives confetti

Employees of companies want to be part of a community, but the current trend (and necessity) of working from home can make building social connections quite difficult. We become so-called “Lonely Workers”, reaching out to others and asking them for help less and less, because they’re not physically close to us. It is now up to companies to offer solutions to make social interactions possible – solutions like Linchpin Hey.

How the Linchpin Intranet Helped dfv Mediengruppe Through the Pandemic

One way or another, Corona has hit every company and forced them to react quickly in order to remain operational and competitive: Suddenly everything was different! This was also the case for the dfv Mediengruppe based in Frankfurt. Our client used this uncertain initial phase of the pandemic to tackle and push forward a Linchpin intranet project, which had been simmering on a low flame for some time. In their presentation at last year’s Tools4AgileTeams conference, Verena Wagenpfeil and Michael Paulus from dfv presented this project with its effects and results.

Value Glide 2021 (11/11/2021) – Adapting to Turbulent Times

Value Glide conference SAFe scaled agile framework remote work

Especially during the last couple of years, it has been made clear that companies need to adapt their way of working and especially their leadership in order to weather storms that occur in their projects and be successful after all. But how can businesses adapt to these turbulent times? The Value Glide virtual conference on November 11th focuses on this question specifically – of course with a lot of expertise about SAFe® too.

Our Journey to Working Remotely at //Seibert/Media pt. 2

The current situation leads us to look into new forms of collaboration. How does teamwork work when the team members aren’t all in one place? What can support smooth collaboration, and what are the most important factors?

As someone who works from home in general, I have gained a wide range of insight into this over the last few years.  However, it’s something completely different when suddenly an entire company is forced into remote work overnight.  I previously shared a general overview of the measures we took in the first post I wrote on the subject. Now I’d like to expand upon that.

Working from home: How management can help teams stay on track

Insights into Remote Onboarding Experience

With the outbreak of the Coronavirus crisis, teams were suddenly forced to start working from home.  This resulted in all their usual team structures to be turned upside down. Lots of teams experienced how their teamwork and personal work organization changed entirely within just a few short days.