Hey everybody. A few days ago a friend of mine asked me for advice about joining or not joining a startup. After I answered him, I got excited to share my condensed thoughts with you in this blog post. He asked me since I was very enthusiastic about founding my own startup. Back in the…
Category: Self Improvement
5 Steps for Working with an Overachiever in Agile Teams
There is this one developer in your team. She knows the code best. Everyone knows her and everyone asks for her opinion, even if not team or code-related. She is in the same agile team as you, also for quite some time now and she saved the day more than once. In team discussions, she…
3 Lessons about Education
I was going to write a plain old blog post with a lot of letters following one another, you know, the usual way, when suddenly ** wild inspiration appeared **. And I thought, why do you guys always have to do all the reading. So I made a video for you. It is 6 minutes…
Explore the Unexplored! (Tech world)
Autumn is coming. This is the time when I like to grab a cup of hot tea and crawl under a warm blanket with my laptop. As a developer, it’s a good time to broaden your horizons with new knowledge. I want to motivate you to use that time as well to explore the tech…
5 Essential Things about Working with a Product Owner
When a team has issues at communication with their Product Owner you may have serious trouble coming towards you. Having problems dealing and talking with your Product Owner inherits a lot of risks for everyone, e.g. it can lead to a huge mountain of technical debt, repeating release postponement, and ultimately a lot of stress,…
My date with Dart and Flutter
Motivation …Hey, guys! It’s time for another blog post from me. This time I want to write about my experiences with Flutter and Dart. Every software developer is regularly confronted with new concepts, frameworks or languages, so am I. I learned to program with Android 2.0. Yes, I’m getting old… Meanwhile, I am not so…
Boostcamp in Berlin – A Field Report
Every season we are attending to a hackathon. This spring we went to one of the biggest in Germany, so they say, the Open Codes Hackathon in Karlsruhe. As one out of ~50 Teams we could choose one competition-category out of three: * Art & Technology, powered by ZKM * IT Brings People Together, powered…
How to start and learn coding
Every day we learn something new, people say,… and yet; you may end up in a situation you feel it’d only go further in one direction. You know there is so much outside of the box, and somehow you managed to get stuck inside. At least you don’t know how to get out anymore. That’s…