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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Five Job Factors: Shifting Up Work Experience

    June 17, 2019 / No Comments
    Five Job Factors: Shifting up Work Experience

    Is there anything missing with your job, which keeps you away from being really happy with it? What is it, that would change your job significantly to the better? You might be surprised what is having most influence. Do your personal reality check! There are five job factors, which come to my mind, when considering…

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  • [Article],  Trends & Predictions

    The Year they kill Agile

    December 26, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo: The Year they kill Agile

    In 2018 even the last companies tried to jump onto the Agile transformation train. Agile and Digitalization is dominating new titles and people with Agile in their mind became the new heroes. And Agile transformation programs have gained a tremendous momentum and size. At the end of 2019 none of these companies will want to…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    We need more people who take care for the HOW

    September 23, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo - Woman on a stand searching for something further away

    I am an engineer and I am working in the software industry for many years now. Nowadays I take care for people - developers, team leaders, but even many more employees involved in running a successful business. I try to be a servant leader, who works with the people. Decisions are taken with the people…

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  • [Article],  Leadership Skills

    Tales of Unicorns and Change Makers

    August 17, 2018 / 1 Comment
    Tales of Unicorns and Change Makers

    For a long while I was chasing unicorns. Change was a wild creature of an amazing purity and grace. Like the horn of a unicorn, change was meant to be antitoxic, even having capabilities to awaken things from death. But I felt like I would never reach a level of expertise, which was of this…

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  • [Article],  Leadership Skills

    Facets of Trust – from Platitudes to Motivation

    June 3, 2018 / No Comments
    Facets of Trust

    Trust is the basis for friendliness and friendship - for getting support and for being loved. Being trusted is giving us a feeling of happiness. But did you ever think in more detail about the origins? It will tell you a lot about yourself. It is to be seen in close relation to success. Growing…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Cross-Functional People

    January 31, 2018 / No Comments
    Cross-Functional Teams ask for Cross-Functional People

    Subject matter experts are silos - subject matter expertise needs to be shared. If experts are leaving a project, the subject stays. By then, if you are not able to close such a gap from within your organization, expertise needs to be bought from the outside. There is only one profound way to come around…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    Daily Routine – The Agile Mastery Challenge

    December 14, 2017 / No Comments
    Daily Routine - a Scrum Masters' Challenge

    What makes up a great scrum master? Test yourself and take a close look how you or your team is perceiving the daily routine.

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership

    October 22, 2017 / No Comments
    Meetup Logo

    A write up of some exciting and astonishing discussions experienced in the Meetup "Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership" of the Agile Munich group.

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  • [Article],  Personal Growth

    About Becoming Better

    September 1, 2017 / No Comments
    About Becoming Better

    You don’t know when you will fail until you got there. Often it is quite easy to understand, when we have become better. We feel that we are successful in doing something. Problems are solved or procedures make sense to us. But, looking at the results does not really describe how we got there. Would…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Dictionary of Agile Language (updated)

    August 30, 2017 / No Comments
    A Dictionary of Agile Language

    The importance of language is inevitable. Finding the right wording, which is expressing exactly what we want to say from a context point of view, but also from a emotional point of view. The agile development space is an area of application, where this comes true notably. We just need to recall, that we use…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Practical Journey to Communities of Practice

    August 25, 2017 / No Comments
    Communities of Practice

    A while ago I have been asking the community at Agile Uprising for some hints on how to setup communities of practice. I felt like I would need some support. I had a rough idea what I would want to achieve by establishing communities, but I was lacking the idea how to get there. The…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Agile Organizational Transformation – Mind the People

    August 13, 2017 / No Comments
    Agile Organization - Mind the People

    When talking about agile and agility, we should not forget that we are talking a lot about culture, values, and identity. Irrespective if we start an agile transition from top to bottom or from bottom to top, we need to understand that we have to take a lot of people with us. For many it…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Teams – the fundament for the agile way

    August 8, 2017 / No Comments
    Teams - the fundament for the agile way

    When we start to become more agile, we start to look at the mindset of people and how they collaborate. We are considering teams to be the fundament for growth and success. Conformity is no objective at all, contribution of individual talents to a group is what we strive for. Where diversity meets collaboration, you…

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  • [Article],  Personal Growth

    Free Agile! Essential Reads

    June 5, 2017 / 1 Comment
    Free Agile! Library - Essential Reads

    Everyone has different reading habits and preferred writing styles. Even though, it is remarkable, that for each of us it takes only a hand full of books, when it gets back to citations and argues on best practices and approaches. These books are our treasure chest. While the list of publications is growing at a…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    An Appreciation for Uncertainty

    May 25, 2017 / No Comments

    Uncertainty is something we try to avoid – whenever possible. We want to know what we need to know, to be able to come up with reliable plans. Plans are supposed to keep deviations away from us, as they could make us struggle. Uncertainty can be seen to impose scepticism, doubt, mistrust. But it is…

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