Enhancement of efficiency and sustainability of CE by adopting agile management methodologies for professionalization of educational network and program development

The development of continuing education is becoming more complex and more complicated, because the demands to education and training are growing, information overload is getting higher, knowledge is faster outdated, quality standards becomes more important, complex research and work environments require stronger crosslinks, and new technologies open new kinds of methodologies. Single organizations for higher education are going to merge their further activities in networks to be able to cope with the difficult tasks in an efficient and sustainable way. The development of innovative, multinational and interdisciplinary programs of CE is more and more professionalized by using the latest methods of management sciences. Therefore, it is useful to complement the system by adopting the latest development in dynamic system management. The transfer of the SCRUM approach to the planning and realizing of complex international and interdisciplinary programs in networks of higher education will be discussed and related to case studies.