Categories: Business and Change, Events, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , creativity, facilitating, mba, oubs
Brainstorming?!! I have to admit that I lately wasn’t too excited about that any more. Luckily, I got a refresher and new impetus on how brainstorming can be done, and how powerful it can be. One of the many things I took away from my OUBS B822 Residential School Jan 7-9. Looking back, my appreciation [...]
Categories: Events, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b822, training
– This article was written Jan 7, posted now due to WLAN issues while travelling and a generally full schedule ;) – I am sitting on the train to Holland, Noordwijkerhout, which is appr 30min away from the Schiphole airport, at the coast of the Northern Sea. I’ll be spending the next 2.5days there at [...]
Categories: Agile, Events Tags: , agile, team
As already written in my summary of the XP Days, I attended a Fish Bowl session with the topic ‘Self-organizing teams’, facilitated by Uwe Friedrichsen. The format of the session worked well. For those of you unfamiliar with the fish bowl concept: This is an open but somewhat controlled form of discussion. There are four [...]
Categories: Agile, Events Tags: , agile, experiences, scrum, training
I very much enjoyed the two days at my first agile conference, the XP-Days 2010 here in Hamburg, which were full of impressions, interesting people and talks, and new things to try out. Here my first personal resumè: The plus list is very long: Well organized conference, very open, interesting people, highly interactive sessions. Only [...]
Categories: Agile, Events Tags: , agile, experiences, scrum, training
I will be spending the next two and a half days on the “XP Days 2010 – Open Conference for agile software development and Extreme Programming” here in Hamburg. This will be my first conference of this kind, so far I’ve been more around the ‘traditional’ conferences like the PM-Forum, so I am looking forward [...]
Categories: Events, Project Mgt., Thoughts Tags: , conference, pm-forum, pmo, portfolio, project management
I’m just sitting on the train back home, looking back at the ‘27th International German Project Management Forum’ which I had the pleasure to attend in the past two days. (I know, what on earth is an international German conference?? Well, in the German mind, it’s a conference with 95% German speakers and a touch [...]
