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: 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: Agile Tags: , agile, portfolio
Today I’d just briefly like to point you to a free Webinar, offered by PMI’s Agile Community of Practice: The topic is ‘Prioritizing Project Portfolios with Innovation Games’. It will be held November 30, 5-6 PM UTC, which is 6-7 PM CET. The webinar is free for PMI members. Here is the flyer with all [...]
Categories: Agile, Business and Change, MBA Studies Tags: , creativity, management, oubs
Since November, I am studying in the OUBS course ‘Creativity, Cognition and Development’ which so far is really enjoyable. Yes, there are tons of materials to read, listen to, and watch. They are well-prepared and intellectually stimulating. Rather than just consuming and trying to learn things they make me think, reflect about myself, organisations, and [...]
Categories: Agile, Project Mgt. Tags: , agile, pmi, volunteers
Ich unterstütze PMI’s Agile Community of Practice (CoP) seit kurzem als Volunteer (Freiwillige), mit dem Ziel, die Community bekannter zu machen und aktive Mitstreiter zu finden. Was ist die Agile CoP? Das Ziel der weltweiten PMI Agilen Community of Practice ist es: sowohl PMI Chapters als auch agile Gruppen weltweit zu erreichen, und die Ausbildung [...]
