A Team with fear cannot do Agile or Scrum, but fear can be handled with Agile and Scrum — A Sense of Danger fear (noun) an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger — Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary As a basic human emotion, fear is evolutionarily designed to help us survive. It prepares our bodies for a fight-or-flight-response and is considered to be key to human survival. …

Destructive communication and how to overcome it — A Planning of Sprints Dev Team: “But this is way too big for a Sprint.” Product Owner: “But we have to do it in this Sprint.” Dev Team: “But we have to consider these alternative paths to not break anything.” Product Owner: “But the customer needs these aspects as well to have a satisfactory journey.” Dev Team: “But…

Thoughts on misunderstandings of roles —

Github and Gitlab setups with multiple accounts The challenge More and more companies use cloud services from Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket. Now imagine you work for a company which requires you to work with an E-Mail address or account they manage. In parallel, you have another customer with the same requirement —…

Considering personalities when building a team — It’s a dark and dry night. Clouds are concealing the moon and the stars. Watch fires and torches enlighten a small castle on top of a hill, surrounded by fields and small woods. Protected by boulders in one of these woods, another fire sheds some light into this darkness. …

Considerations for building up a great Scrum team —

A PO’s point of view why time measurement is pointless —