Learning is a continuous journey, but it also happens disruptively where you often can only evaluate&capture your progress on hindsight .

 

I believe in LeanStartup practices to be a valuable asset for companies on their way to a learning organization and like to apply the LeanStartup mindset and use the practices in big companies!

Di

04

Nov

2014

8 insights & tips after 4 times mentoring at Lean Startup Machine

I collected some insights which I reflected after mentoring at LSM Amsterdam, about

  1. Offering Options
  2. Too many options
  3. Targeting end users
  4. Targeting companies
  5. Products & Solutions
  6. Fake for early validation
  7. One-time transactions
  8. How to win LSM
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Do

04

Sep

2014

Daily stabilization branches for releases - my experience

My experience with stabilization branches:

  • Despite good intensions they do not work
  • Everything is more complicated
  • Local Optimization prevents system thinking

 

Im my post i share some of my observations what occurred when the developers decided to introduce a stabilization branches.

 

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Di

02

Sep

2014

Interview: Mein Lean Startup Machine Munich 2014 Rückblick

AceGolfGear: Von Elektrogeräten zu Golfausrüstung!
Die Gewinner AceGolfGear: Von Elektrogeräten zu Golfausrüstung!

"Hab' keine Angst vor deinen Kunden!"

Bei der "Lean Startup Machine" (1. - 3. August 2014 in München) zeigten mehr als 20 Mentoren, wie Gründer kostspielige Fehler vermeiden und erfolgreiche Business-Konzepte und Produkte entwickeln können. Co-Organisator Nils Bernert, Senior IT-Berater und Agile Coach bei Valtech, fasst die Essenz im Blitzinterview zusammen.

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Do

20

Feb

2014

A perfect Definition of Done, undone work and the undone department in a large scale scrum context

Craig Larman talked in his LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) course about

  • an imperfect Definition of Done (DoD)
  • a perfect DoD
  • undone work and
  • the "Undone Department"

and to continuously improve, to reduce (and remove!) the undone work.

 

We found this quite interesting, especially in the context of Scrum in large companies, where there is usually a lot of undone work, respectively a big "Undone Department", due to long release cycles.

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Di

18

Feb

2014

Limited WiP Society München: Simulation Kanban Skalierung

Rumpf Team
Rumpf Team

Am 17.02.14 fand bei it-agile ein Treffen der Limited WiP Society München statt. Der Fokus der Limited WiP Society liegt auf Lean und Kanban. Mit ungefähr 20 Teilnehmern wurde auf diesem Treffem eine Simulation, die die Skalierung mit Kanban erlebbar machen sollte in einer Art Workshop mit 4 Teams durchgeführt (siehe Ankündigung auf XING).

 

Ein wirklich tolles Treffen!

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Do

13

Feb

2014

Team Radar Retrospective - Tips & Tricks

Team Radar
Team Radar

The Team Radar is a nice retro activity. I provide some tips and improvements in this blog post.

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Fr

10

Jan

2014

42 - no - 70(!) insights from "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

A picture from a session @ Play4Agile, something about thinking ...
A picture from a session @ Play4Agile, something about thinking ...

Full credits to Daniel Kahnemann with his incredible book "Thinking, Fast & Slow"

These 70 bullets are quotes or summaries from the book, with page numbers.

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So

15

Sep

2013

"Back of the Room" Release Retrospective using a Futurespective

Agenda&Goals (German)
Agenda&Goals (German)
Let me share the methods used in a release retrospective, where I applied a futurespective and was inspired by the 4-C workshop design used in "Training from the back of the room", which was in my opinion quite successful!
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Mi

11

Sep

2013

Coaching Dojo with GROW model and Pair Coaching

GROW
GROW

Today Sven (@MrSnow76) introduced the GROW model, the "Coaching Funnel" and "Overcoming obstacles" to the attendees.

This time Sven and me did also do a "Pair Coaching", where we both used the GROW model to  help a colleague to get more ideas (options) to tackle a problem about "product quality" (well, "too many bugs").

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Di

03

Sep

2013

My Workshop at Lean Agile Scrum Zürich

Spotify & Angry Birds
Spotify & Angry Birds

On Friday 06.09.2013 I attended the Lean Agile Scrum conference in Zurich, Switzerland, and did a workshop together with my colleague Josef Scherer (@Coach4Scrum).

 

The workshop is called:

Disruptive Innovation & fast feedback cycles

 

We got the biggest room, the auditorium, but we needed to switch because we did an interactive workshop, all work was done in small groups with about 4-5 people each, using an innovation game and two canvasses.

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Nils Bernert, Agile Coach & LeanStartup enthusiast, valtech.de
Nils Bernert, Agile Coach & LeanStartup enthusiast, valtech.de

Next Appearances

  • ? 05.12.14-07.12.14 LSM Berlin
  • 26.01.15 - 30.01.15 OOP Munich 2015 (Workshop)

Past Appearances

  • 09.08.13 - 11.08.13 LeanStartupMachine (Mentoring)
  • 21.08.13 Stoos MUC: Coaching Dojo (Organizer)
  • 06.09.13 Lean Agile Scrum Zürich (Workshop)
  • 23.09.13 - 25.09.13 Scrum Gathering Paris (Workshop)
  • 03.02.13 - 07.02.13 OOP München (Workshop)
  • 21.02.14 - 24.02.14 Play4Agile (Unconference)
  • 08.03.14 Leancamp Stuttgart (Open Space)
  • 21.03.14 - 22.03.14 Design Thinking Camp München (Barcamp)
  • 30.06.14 - 01.07.14 Scrum Day Stuttgart (Workshop & Presentation)
  • 01.08.14 - 03.08.14. Lean Startup Machine Munich 2014 (Organizer & Mentor)
  • 06.09.14 Javascript Coding Dojo Munich
  • 30.10.14 - 31.10.14 Business Model Generation Masterclass, London
  • 31.10.14 - 02.11.14 LSM Amsterdam (Mentor & Speaker)

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