Star Wars or StarTrek?

If you are active in agile spaces, chances are, you have come across Yves Hanoulle. He does a lot of important community work such as organizing conferences and his looong-running series of interviews “Who is agile?“, first written and lately as videos. I’m honoured to be part of it and it was a very interesting… Continue reading Star Wars or StarTrek?

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Is this blog dead?

Let me check: Last post is from August 2018. More than a year ago. Wow, that’s worse than I expected. And that post isn’t even there anymore. It moved over to retromat.org. I guess that settles it, this blog is dead 🙁 It’s not for a lack of topics. I’ve got about 10 drafts and… Continue reading Is this blog dead?

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Ad-Hoc Leadership

[This topic in German will be part of the upcoming 2nd sipgate book \o/]. We don’t have any middle management at sipgate. In our teams nobody is anybody else’s boss. Hearing this, visitors often assume we’re without leaders. In fact, the opposite is true. (Disclaimer: We do have a hierarchy. It only has 2 levels… Continue reading Ad-Hoc Leadership

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Expect turnover – Agile transitions and changes in the work force

The other day, I’ve had 3 visitors from a large corporation. Since one of them was from HR we talked a lot about these topics and exchanged our hiring processes. One hidden criterium of theirs is that people must be “leidensfähig” to a certain extent. “Leidensfähig” is a beautiful German word that literally translates to… Continue reading Expect turnover – Agile transitions and changes in the work force

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And what else?

Have you ever had to broach a difficult topic? You prepare, you make notes and you head for a 1:1. You start by talking about various smaller topics. You avoid the big fat whopper of a topic that you’ve been worrying about. Time is ticking by. You’re stalling. Then at the end of the –… Continue reading And what else?

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Trump, sad, glad

There are a lot suggestions for Retromat that I can’t  include. Most commonly I decline because an activity is a variation of one that’s already in – just like the following one. I thought it was a fun one (gotta keep a sense of humour in trying times …) and asked its creator Leszek Blacha… Continue reading Trump, sad, glad

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