Die Rolle des Product Owners – Kurz und bündig
[English Summary: I've translated Henrik Kniberg's excellent "Product Owner in a Nutshell" into German. Next post will be in English again, pinkie promise!] Kennt ihr schon Henrik Knibergs exzellentes...
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Minimum Viable Customer
Every once in a while I think about developing a product and / or founding a company. Up until 5 years ago I thought “the idea” would be crucial – that the product idea would make the difference...
View ArticleOne-on-Ones in Agile (Transitions)
Have you ever had regular One-on-Ones (“O3s”)? If not, I think you’re missing out. Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne describe them as: 30 minute conversation every (other) week Between a manager and one...
View Article3 Feedback Models
Feedback is important. Only by knowing how our actions affect others do we know what works and what doesn’t. Feedback becomes more effective, when it is frequent, timely and specific. Frequent Giving...
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Find someone to TeamUp
At my workplace we’ve recently started following Scrum and Kanban. I head the product management team with 2 newly minted product owners. They used to be a product manager and sales engineer...
View ArticleMy Facilitation Kit
About two years ago, I toyed around with the idea of a “Scrum Master Emergency Kit“. Today I’d like to show you the kit tray I really use. I hope it’s useful for people new to facilitating...
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How to keep up to date with Agile & Lean
Two weeks ago, this page about UX Design showed up in my Twitter stream. It’s a collection of Twitter accounts, blogs, conferences, etc. that people (newly) interested in UX Design might check out to...
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Fruit of 2 Weeks Sabbatical: Board Avatars
Two weeks ago I left my job for a 6-month Sabbatical to work on whatever the fuck I want – A big experiment on myself: What will I do when left to my own devices? Actually do stuff or slouch on the...
View ArticleThe Best Magnets for Whiteboards
Writing my upcoming book on retrospectives makes me look with a beginner’s eyes at Scrummasterdom and the materials I use for it. This resulted in the first video about my facilitation kit and now this...
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Join the Wall-Skills.com Advent Calendar!
Have you ever heard of “Testing on the Toilet“? I hadn’t until Roland presented it at the Düsseldorf Agile Meetup: Some Google testers wanted to improve the (automated) testing done across the company....
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List of Books about Retrospectives
Recently I’ve made a list of all books about retrospectives that I’m aware of for my Retr-O-Mat newsletter. Just in case you also want to explore this topic: Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby &...
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13 activities for retrospectives to know
I like all activities in Retr-O-Mat. Of course, I do, otherwise I would not have invested the time to add them. Still, when I selected activities for the Print Edition I realized that some activities...
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Mail-Skills: Methods for new Product Owners
At the moment Scrum is extremely popular in Germany. In meet ups there are often newly minted Product Owners or people wanting to become a Product Owner. And they all look for orientation: What is...
View ArticleThe Product Owner’s tasks according to the Dev Team
One of the questions that inspired Mail-Skills.com is: “What do you expect of a PO? What are her tasks?” As always, the answer is “It depends”. One major influence on what I expect from a PO is...
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The Power of Habit – Book Tip
When the insanely insightful Amy Hoy is smitten with a book, I read it. And “The Power of Habit” did not disappoint! It’s an entertaining journey through cases that helped scientists uncover how...
View ArticleClean Questions and the Power of Metaphors
A year ago I blogged about Non-Violent Communication as a means to avoid judgement and find needs. Now I think I found something even more radical (once again via Andrea Chiou): Clean Questions / Clean...
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Changing Lanes – Servant Leader to Developer
In a way I have come full circle: I started as a web developer in 1999 and I returned to being a web developer in January 2014. Intermediate steps: Studying Computer Science, creating e-learning...
View ArticleSMARTe Ziele auf deutsch
Hm, wie würdet ihr die SMARTen Ziele übersetzen? Für den deutschen Retromaten (um den sich ansonsten Patrick Zeisig hochverdient gemacht hat) habe ich es gerade folgendermaßen eingedeutscht: specific =...
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