Category: notes from the field
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Commitment
The agile value with the most magical power inside is the value of commitment. It converts intention into knowledge and ability. How that? By committing Yourself (sing. & plural!) to a goal, You align all Your activity towards that goal. No matter You are conscious about that fact or not, You ask Yourself in every…
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What is Eye-Level?
When You talk about agile values, sooner or later You come to “respect”. Respect can be paid by the younger to the elder, by the beginner to the experienced and even from the poorer to the richer. Respect is helpful and a very important aspect of a civilization. It is desperately missing, once You experienced…
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It is all about alignment!
Pulling on ropes could solve situations. Often that creates a knot if done unreflectedly from the beginning. How can You deal with it?
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A short note about Evolution in Requirements and Functionality
Some thoughts, facts and experiences about change – what works and how You can do
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2016 – retro: dawning of an agile life
Iteration 2016 is closed. 2017 is just to be started. Good opportunity for a retro. Stop searching – start finding! In 2016, I finally found myself. That is a pretty remarkable fact, because I was searching as long as I was able to consciously react on people, consume and interpret media. That might be more…
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Agile X-Mas
how to detox days around christmas – just use tools You already know.
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agiLE#7 agile Game Night
This Blog-article is mainly for them who joined that evening. Therefore, it is reported in German language. https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/agileipzig/events/235334865/ Vorstellungsrunde Rolf leitete den Abend ein und erwähnte unsere Besucher aus Dresden und Jena/Plauen. Wir haben dann mit einem erhellenden Kennenlernspiel als ganze Gruppe begonnen. Zunächst haben wir uns nach agiler Erfahrungszeit aufgestellt. Den zweiten Teil der…
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Tree of Requirements
At a client, I felt the need for structuring “requirements” we got from user interviews. In my opinion, the structure is already inside the topics and items. You just have to work it out (like Michelangelo said). So, how did the tree grow? Recently I referenced Lyssa Adkins’ tree of high performance at another client.…
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Agile Game Lab #16 @DaWanda
It was my pleasure to join the agile game community in Berlin. After a short-term location-switch, the evening was hosted at the DaWanda Snuggery. It is a combination of showroom, café and event-location, equipped and fully stuffed with things that is also available from the well-known website. Some of the items are heavily worn. Some…