Categories: Agile, Business and Change, Project Mgt. Tags:
Our former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who lives just around the corner here in Hamburg, once said ‘If you’re having visions, go see your doctor.’ Quite Hanseatic indeed! Have you come across Geoffrey Moore’s template for a vision statement? It goes like this: FOR (target customer) WHO (statement of the need or opportunity) THE (product [...]
Categories: Agile, Tekkie Stuff Tags: , agile, refactoring, tdd
In my last blog post I wrote about my self-experiment with TDD. As this was real fun, I continued and took it all a bit further. On my journey I continued to follow the TDD principles and did quite a lot of refactoring. For example, I found out that having 7 or even 14 ‘inning’ [...]
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Today I’d like to share my experiences from a short TDD self-experiment with you. No, this is not about the latest designer drug but about an agile software development technique stemming from Extreme Programming called “Test Driven Development”. (If you want to learn about TDD, there are plenty of resources available online or in old-fashioned [...]
Categories: Agile Tags: , agile, scrum, scrum lego city, training
This week, a few other Scrum coaches and ScrumMasters and I conducted a trial run of the “Scrum Lego City” game. Thanks to Sven Röpstorff, Thorsten Sturm, Mathias Vaagt and Sibylle for joining the game! Scrum Lego City by agile42 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Openly sharing experiences should be [...]
Categories: Business and Change, MBA Studies, Project Mgt. Tags: , b822, creativity, management, mba, oubs
I just finished my last MBA elective called B822 “Innovation, Creativity and Change” at the Open University Business School. (Part of the reason why it was a bit more quiet in my blog than usual). I’d highly recommend this course to anyone interested in bringing out creativity in themselves or their teams. During these studies [...]
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In case you were starting to wonder… Yes, I’m still alive. I’ve been rather busy with business, studies, and sitting in front of TV watching the catastrophe in Japan unfolding in disbelief. You might have read one of my prior articles about PMI’s Agile Communuity of Practice (CoP) which is currently given fresh life. There [...]
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: Business and Change, Project Mgt. Tags: , agile pmo, pmo, project management
Particularly under tight economic conditions, companies’ project portfolios are under pressure: Projects need to be selected more carefully, and those projects who are being implemented need to be performed professionally, so that they actually help the business. PMOs (Project Management Offices) seemed to be somewhat of a hot topic in 2010. There were lots of [...]
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 [...]
