All my sketchnotes from AotB 2016:
Category Archives: Resource
24 Work Hacks – Das Buch
[English summary: We wrote a book at work (in German) and it turned out amazing!!! It’s a cross between coffee table and business book. Watch out for “24 Work Hacks“! If you’d be interested in an English version, tell me so that I can make a case for translating it 🙂 ] Endlich, endlich, darf …
Badass – Making Users Awesome – Book Tip
Oh wow, where do I even start? “Badass – Making Users Awesome” by Kathy Sierra is a truly enlightening read. It contains ideas I’ve never heard before in the very accessible style of the “Head First” books. Sierra makes the case that in order to build a great product and a loyal customer base you …
Product Owner in der agilen Transition – Podcast
[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 ĂĽber den “Product Owner …
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Open Friday – Lernende Organisation mit Open Spaces
[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 …
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The Coach’s Casebook – Book Tip
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 …
Watching Users – Rebuttal
Have you seen this cartoon lately? With the caption “How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time” I laughed when I first saw it. I’m pretty sure I’ve retweetet it from this guy (his source (their source)). Ever since, I can’t shake the feeling that I betrayed my User …
Favorite Quotes from Joy, Inc. – Menlo #1
What a blast! We (sipgate) just hosted Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations and author of “Joy, Inc.”. Both, the real life Rich and his book are very entertaining and inspiring. So much so, that I’ll write a small series. I want to help spread the word about: Planning Origami (Became a 1-pager, not a …
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The Long Way to Lean
Last week I spoke at the International PHP Conference aka Webtech Conf 2015 in Munich. My talk “The Long Way to Lean” was the story of sipgate’s ongoing journey from traditional silo-ed company to agile and lean via Scrum. Find the slides & speaker notes here. There was a camera, so I hope I can …
Agile & Scrum – Wall-Skills Compilations
For a long time I’ve wanted to group the helpful 1-pagers on Wall-Skills.com into books (well, PDFs), so that it’s easy to study or display all those for a certain topic. The topic currently dearest to my heart is a collection for Product Owners that are just starting out. That one’s still in the making …