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My Lego Toniebox Project
After moving I put my Lego Star Wars Milenium Falcon back together. And then I thought that was fun and wanted to keep playing with Lego. But instead of paying for other overpriced models that I …
MSc. in Business Psychology
During my travel-heavy consultant years, I picked up a remote study program. Business Psychology from which I graduated 2 years ago now, 7 years after my PhD. After studying the foundations, like …
Company Culture: The Messy Kitchen Fallacy
Many offices have a messy kitchen. And whenever there’s a messy kitchen, there are people complaining about it. In chat rooms, during lunch, at company meetings, on signs in the kitchen… you name it. …
A Lack of Ownership. About Pyramids and Teams
The team has to take ownership! That’s what they all say. And they don’t understand, why the team doesn’t. They take ownership themselves. And they told the team to do the same. Yet, it’s not …
- Cross-Cultural Competence
We live in a globalized world. Interacting with different cultures all the time. And it is becoming more and more important to be able to deal with this. Cross-cultural competence is what HR calls it …
- Change Management: Resistance is Fruitful!
Resilience is probably THE buzzword of our time. Everyone is looking for people that are easy to adapt to changing situations. Because those who are not are wasting our time. That’s at least what some …
- Don't be so theoretical!
This goes out to all change agents, all teachers and coaches, everyone that tries to introduce a paradigm shift of some sort. Be it helping a society to understand the value of diversity, or helping a …
- Leadership - What it is and how it should be done
I work in a company, where we have team leads, supporting the employees to develop and making sure that this development is aligned to the competitive goals of the company. I’m sure you can relate to …
- LeSS Practitioner
At the end of November, pretty much exactly 4 years after my certification to a product owner, I joined a training to become a Certified LeSS Practitioner, held by Mark Bregenzer. He is a colleague of …
- Diversity vs Patriarchy - Let's catch the next Wave!
Recently, I attended a conference dealing with organizational change. One of the sessions there was about human resources (HR). This is the department of an organization that is supposed to support …
- From Scrum to Kanban
Or: The Difference between Pre-Launch and Post-Launch of an E-Commerce Project Every e-commerce project has this one moment that changes everything: The launch. From that magical moment on your …
- Tech vs UX - Why the struggle?
We live in a world of digital full service agencies and companies that deliver the full brand experience, from a complex technical backend to a fancy frontend. This requires specialists of opposing …
- Knowledge Management Strategies
Large parts of my PhD thesis are based on a theory by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria, and Thomas Tierney [1]. In their article the authors analyze different consulting companies and define two basic …
- How Scrum is like Soccer: Cross-Functional Teams
I introduced this little Christmas series the other day, explaining that I compare scrum to modern soccer. Yesterday then, I focused the efficiency in both disciplines. Today I discuss …
- How Scrum is like Soccer: Efficiency
As I described yesterday, this is the second part of my little Christmas series, in which I compare scrum to modern soccer. Today I focus on the efficiency in either discipline and tomorrow I will …
- How Scrum is like Soccer
Recently, I became certified by the Scrum Alliance as a Scrum Product Owner. During the course, Craig Larman gave many analogies of scrum behavior to different sport disciplines, like relay races. …
- Scrum Product Owner
Last week I attended a course for my certification as a Scrum Product Owner, held by Craig Larman. He is very inspiring and taught us in two days the details of scrum and about the responsibilities of …
- Knowledge Management in Software Development
Last Thursday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis [1]. My PhD studies were supervised by Peter Axel Nielsen and took part in the Research Centre for Socio-Interactive Design of the Computer Science …
- Blind Men and an Elephant
Just recently, I learned about the story from the blind men and an elephant and was amazed at once. Apparently it is an old tale with its origins in south Asia. The goes something like this: A group …
- Exporting a Word Library to LaTeX/BibTex
Writing a thesis is fun. But you want to minimize the risks that might force you to start over. One of which is the choice of tool. I am a fan of MS Word and started writing it there. But apparently I …
- The Wiki Way
Ward Cunningham was searching for a new way of collaboration while he was cooperating on the Design Patters book by the Gang of Four. He came up with a very simple web application for collaboration. …
- The Experience Factory
During the literature study of my Ph.D. thesis I came across an interesting concept, which I would like to briefly write about here. Even before the term knowledge management became popular, Victor R. …
- The KiWi Project
My PhD studies were held within a project, funded by the European Commission: The KiWi Project – Knowledge in a Wiki Within this project the participants created a wiki-based collaboration system, …
- Knowledge... what is that?
You can’t really be involved with knowledge management without asking: What is knowledge? Well, knowledge is probably one of the oldest concepts of mankind. Ancient philosophers already tried to …
- KiWi Release Party
The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of our collaborative knowledge management software was published. …
- Engaged Scholarship
During the summer school and the conference I recently attended, the topic was engaged scholarship. Since Van de Ven published his book [1] in 2007, this topic has been broadly discussed, especially …
- EuroSPI 2010
Last week (September 1 - 3, 2010) I have been in Grenoble, France. That was the location for the 17th Conference of European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI² 2010). …
- SCIS & IRIS 2010
The last few days (August 20 - 24, 2010) I spent participating the Scandinavian Conference of IS & IRIS Seminar in Rebild, a few kilometers outside Aalborg, Denmark. The time was divided into two …
- Polanyi's Tacit Dimension
Most of the research regarding knowledge management has some relation, be it directly or not, to Michael Polanyi’s book »The Tacit Dimension«[1], published in 1966. He was a polymath born in Hungary, …
- DaRSIS Summer School 2010
I spent the last week (May 2- 8, 2010) as one of 20 PhD students from Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden and Germany in a former monastery called Magleås, not far …
- A Home-Story: The Ruhr-District
Some time ago I was born (and raised afterwards) in a town called Herten, in the northern part of what we call Ruhrpott, the Ruhr-District. In 2010 this, being the 3rd biggest agglomeration area of …