Autor: barbnerdy
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Why „Agile“ is NOT Project-Management
LinkedIn recently became a bad place for all things related to „Agile.“ At least, this is what I see in my bubble. There might be other topics, but as my contacts are mainly from this industry, I just see th0se. And what do I mean when I call it a s*h*? I’m missing fundamental good…
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Event Storming
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-> Synchronizing mental models <- and a talk with Germany’s first astronaut Ulf Merbold EventStorming is a flexible workshop format for collaborative exploration of complex business domains. It sounds fun, and it was fun. Imagine bringing 25 people together for 3 hours to use this popular technique to model a solution to a problem in…
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Stakeholder Management at it’s best: What problem do you want to solve?
Recently, I did a test for a ScrumMaster position, and one question was how I could support the product manager when it comes to the common stakeholder question: Hey, but we need it now, faster, and cheaper. So my answer was quite obvious: Let’s talk! I see this as one of the main tasks…
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How to experience „FLOW“ in a remote setting
Picture: Sindre Aalberg via Unsplash When I posted the link to the article about „Flow Metrics“ and the problem with multitasking, I pointed out this great article from Johanna Rothmann and the video of Henrik Kniberg, a great discussion on LinkedIn evolved, where we also talked about exercises to experience the „Flow“. Johanna was…
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Video: Scrum does not equal AGILE (Aino Corry)
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tldr: Instead of looking only at these 4, have a look at the 12 principles. In this video, Aino Corry points out that all the great ideas behind the Agile Manifesto, which was written in 2001 at a snow/ski resort in the mountains of Utah (AgileManifesto.org) and that most of the time these good ideas…
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Flow –> Metrics (alternate titel: Multitasking is bad as it sounds)
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EDIT: After publishing this post I thought it is important to add some more info to this related topic: Multitasking [Multitasking is actually task switching in disguise. When you try to do two things at once—like checking your email during a meeting—you’re actually jumping between those two tasks at lightning speed. Task switching takes precious…
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„It is a thin line“ – A fantastic talk about facilitation:
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in Faciltation The „Never Done Before“ group recently did a super inspiring LinkedIn Live session: Are Facilitators manipulators? And if so, is this necessarily a bad thing? And when does manipulation turn into facipulation?? They talked about the very thin line between neutrality and manipulation, assumptions when setting the agenda, flexibility and improv but also about…
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Visualisation, the secret power
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But where to start, when the team dismisses your idea of using a whiteboard and sticky notes with: Ah no, we don’t need that „schnick schnack“. Not only is visualisation one of the principles in Kanban, where we start with visualizing the current workflow/process. It also helps in every kind of planning, workshop, brainstorming session…
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Enough, lets move on or: How a puppet can save your meeting
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We all know the scenario: a meeting, a discussion that only seems to affect two people and nobody dares to bring it up. Most of the participants are already annoyed and bored. And here comes ELMO ELMO stands for Enough Let’s Move On. The facilitator of the meeting is taking care, that a majority is…
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„How to make Toast“ – A fun excercise with big impact
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💡 Start a meeting, workshop, or conversation with a quick exercise to make your ideas visible. Draw ‘How to Make Toast’ to ignite your creative and analytical thinking and visualize what’s next for you and your teams.. What happens when you ask a group this supposedly simple question: Please sketch all the steps you need:…
