Engineer Rotation
A case study about Software Engineer Rotation to improve collaboration and cross functional communication across teams. Continue Reading
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Talk – Organizational Design & Practices for Innovation
My colleague Holger Schmeisky and me did a talk about Organizational Design & Practices for Innovation. This was part of german telekom Agile Expert Talk series. Continue Reading
Autonomy with accountability allowed me to take a sabbatical
A bit more than a year ago I had the chance to go for a 3 months sabbatical. Back in the time I did serve two teams as Engineering Lead. This post is about how I prepared my teams for a sabbatical. Continue Reading
Estimate multi module stories
Last week I did two estimation session coachings. One team’s product consists of modules made with different programming languages. A team member asked me about estimation of a story that include implementations in languages he does not work with.
Task board transition posting
The project team I currently work in started with an analog task board to track the work load. Over time we started to think about other boards. I started a transition process to a digital board as well as I… Continue Reading
what does www mean
Asking what “www” means was my opener of today’s retrospective session as moderator. The obvious answer arrived early. However, I was a bit surprised no one had the idea: “What Went Well”. The majority of the team has not so… Continue Reading
How to scale scrum
Markus and I held a presentation about Scrum back in September 2011 at T-Systems. This covered some but not all aspects of Scrum. A subject that was not presented is how to scale scrum. Today we do a subsequent presentation focused… Continue Reading
from scrum to kanban
I experienced a Scrum team that started to question the scrum process after some time. One of the options was moving to Kanban. Reading some articles on the web and thinking about the situation inspired me to put some details… Continue Reading
4 questions to answer in the daily scrum
What did I achieve yesterday/until this daily stand up? What am I going to do today/until the next stand up? Are there any impedements that block me? To whom shall I talk offline about what?