Process

Scrum roles visualized

Here is my attempt to visualize the roles in Scrum. Mostly influenced by Tobias Mayer’s book ‘The people’s Scrum’ and…

We recently introduced a change to how we give feedback at Stylight. The way we introduce organisational changes assumes that our culture is mostly aligned with an Agile mindset (compare [Sohata]). We think everyone should have an opportunity to contribute…

We use quarterly OKRs to set goals and measure progress at Stylight. When we define them we remind ourselves to focus on outcomes rather than output. That means to describe a desired effect rather…

Our brown bag lunches (bbls) take place in our atrium at the center of the office where many people eat their lunch anyway.

We collect the topics in the kitchen on sticky notes on a flipchart where lots of people pass by throughout the day. This keeps…

Lean Startup Distilled

[You can find a German translation here.]

Gestern habe ich ein Interview mit Frank Thielen mit dem reißerischen Titel “Das Lean Startup ist tot” gelesen. Beim Lesen musste ich einige Male den Kopf schütteln und ich möchte hier kurz zu einigen Aussagen…

One of the most debated and debatable XP practices is Pair Programming. Here is what I found to work best for me: willing spontaneous pairing (to carry on Arlo Belshee’s wonderfully ambiguous ‘Promiscuous Pairing’).

Lean startup language design

At a recent hackathon, I was noodling around with Dart. I thought it was great that Google made it…