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Walkies – Menlo #6

[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“]  At one point during Menlo Innovations history, the employees decided they would like to stretch their legs...

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Mass Interviews – Menlo #7

[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“]  Menlo does a lot of things different from other companies, Hiring for example. And I don’t mean...

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My friend, the time clock

This little exchange happened on Twitter: I thought the topic might be worth elaborating on, as “no overtime” seems to be a rare thing. It’s time to confess my undying love for our time clock:...

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How teams form and break up when there are no managers

“Self-Selecting Teams” and “Dynamic Reteaming” are a big topic in my timeline thanks to the books by Sandy Mamoli & David Mole and the upcoming book by Heidi Helfand respectively. This made me...

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Demo time – How to stay up to date with 10+ teams

[This post first appeared in German.] At sipgate, we’re more than 10 teams that work (more or less) independently of each other. Each team is self-organizing. Together we deliver more than 20 updates...

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How did you introduce pair programming at sipgate?

Recently I’ve been presenting our Work Hacks at a couple of places and talking about pairing up as part of it. Not only do we pair program but we also mob program and pair up across roles: Dev and UX...

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Examples for Swarming beyond the team

When I first learned about Kanban, I also learned about “Swarming”. Swarming is when the whole team pitches in to work on the same thing. That same thing is often a blocking task that WIP limits helped...

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What is an Agile Mindset? Six years later

At the end of 2011 I wrote about what makes an agile mindset (in my opinion) and even made a fancy infographic about it: It concentrates on how people think about their colleagues as humans vs. cogs;...

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Mistakes were made – 3 things not to do when going agile

There are many awesome practices we do at sipgate that I love to share with others. But we’ve also gotten some things very wrong, especially in the beginning in 2010. Let me spill the beans about 3 “do...

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Scaling through Pairing – Menlo #3

[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“] It’s quite common for my colleagues and me to pair. Not just developers, but also UX & dev, PO &...

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