Author: corinna

After about 2 or 3 years into my agile journey there was a time when I would listen to a talk or read a book and be like “Yeah, it’s exactly like that! I wish someone had told me 3 years ago! It would have helped me a lot! Why didn’t anyone tell me that?”… Continue reading Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that?

[English summary: Popular podcaster Toby Baier and me talk about the Product Owner during the initial transition / adoption / ignition / <find a better word> to Scrum in his podcast series “Agiles Produktmanagement”.] Die POs unter euch kennen wahrscheinlich schon Toby Baiers Podcast “Agiles Produktmanagement”. In Folge 14 unterhält sich Toby mit mir über… Continue reading Product Owner in der agilen Transition – Podcast

There are some odd tidbits of experience you pick up when you work with whiteboards and stickies for a longer period of time. Here’s a random collection of my tidbits that might be nice to know for beginners: Beware, 3m pink stickies leave pink stains on most non-whiteboard surfaces. Walls, doors, tables, … Especially when… Continue reading Pink stickies considered harmful & other arcane facilitation tidbits

At sipgate we sometimes are too nice to each other. That might sound like a luxurious “problem” if you’ve have to weather a tough company climate, but it can indeed be a problem. As in, we don’t shoot down ideas that aren’t that well thought out. Or we proceed with projects that only one person… Continue reading Ritual Dissent

2 weeks ago I read a nice piece about how to be luckier overnight: Being grateful about adverse things changes your perspective. I really liked it and have tried to do this more conciously. Admittedly, there are a few things I refuse to be grateful for in any way whatsoever, but for most nuisances in… Continue reading Radical Gratitude Applied

[English summary: I’ve translated my experience reports about regular, company-wide Open Spaces into German.] Bei sipgate haben wir supergute Erfahrungen mit regelmäßigen (alle 2 Wochen) Open Spaces gemacht. Auf Englisch habe ich dazu schon mehrfach gesprochen und geschrieben. Inzwischen gibt es den kompletten Erfahrungsbericht auch auf Deutsch, bei der Informaktik Akuell. Wenn Dich nur das… Continue reading Open Friday – Lernende Organisation mit Open Spaces

Somebody has recently asked my husband (a great speaker!) for tips on how to learn public speaking. The asker was, among other things, concerned about his voice being too monotonous. My husband recommended an acting class and I agree. I’m confident that the basis of my being comfortable with public speaking was an acting class I… Continue reading You can learn to present! – Public Speaking #3

[This post has been a draft since 2013. Not sure why, it was 95% finished…] At OOP one presenter asked the audience and thus me: “How did you successfully resolve the biggest challenge in your professional life?” My answer: “Talking”. Every one else’s? “Conversation”, “Communication”, “Face-to-face-meeting”. In many ways I’m paid for having conversations: As… Continue reading Solve people problems with data

If you’re even remotely interested in Coaching, I highly recommend “The Coach’s Casebook” by Geoff Watts and Kim Morgan. I’ve just finished it and it absolutely lived up to the raving reviews I read on Twitter! For the record, I’m a coaching newbie. I’d figure that newbies and intermediates will gain the most. The book… Continue reading The Coach’s Casebook – Book Tip

A new year! I love the clean slate! A good opportunity to reflect on the past, present and future. Past Professionally speaking, last year might well have been my best year yet. Definitely in terms of exposure – not just for me but also for sipgate. I used to read about Spotify, Jimdo and other… Continue reading Goodbye 2015, hello 2016!