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: Startup
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…
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,…
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…