Meet Olaf in London
Over the next five months, I’ll be in London quite regularly. I was invited to give two trainings and speak at two conferences! That provides opportunities to meet, to work … If you’re in London or the UK and want to meet, these are your options: April 27/28: Clean Language for Agile Coaches with Judy […]
You are Still a Part of Us.
Today, we learned that a slight majority of the British voters voted to leave the EU. Now emotions are “cooking high” as we say in German, we observe expressions of sadness and frustration, anger and anxiety, joy and celebration… With all of this context – our memories and feelings and hopes and assumptions and … […]
Heart and Soul of ALE
ALE16 will happen in Paris. Last three days of August. Sponsor, and join us! Five years of Agile Lean Europe. What a journey, and roller-coaster ride! In 2011, I’ve been heart and center of the creation of our first ALE unconference, ALE2011 in Berlin. We met and engaged to “share because we care”. It was […]
eXtreme Listening
Last December at XPDays Benelux, Ole Jepsen and I hosted a session on eXtreme Listening. This is what happened. Extreme Listening We started with some good old rock’n’roll. I don’t remember what we played, yet I tend to err on the heavy side. It was loud, as the point was that people become aware that […]
Creating a Space of Trust
Workshop description of my APIL16 session titled Creating a Space of Trust. Made up in the spur of the moment, captured for fair use. Announced like this: Trust is a subjective quality of a situation. It’s messy, situational and contextual. How can we make sense of it? How can we improve it? And: what impact would […]
How To Be Lazy by Chris Matts
“Laziness is an aspiration that few achieve.” – Chris Matts At ALE15 in Sofia, Chris Matts explained his simple model/strategy To Be Lazy. Axes: positive or negative value, fun/not fun to do. Don’t do what doesn’t yield value. Tom Sawyer Land: Delegate what you don’t like to do yourself. Create options for that with coffee […]
Projektna Praksa
This week I was in Slovenia to host a business breakfast, give a keynote and facilitate a workshop at a conference near Ljubljana. Thank you Aleš Stempihar for the invitation! On this page I’m collecting material I used or mentioned. If anything is missing, please ask in the comments! I’m also very happy if you leave your feedback 🙂 […]
OOP Descale Your Organisation!
Slides of my talk: Descale your organisation oop from Olaf Lewitz Interview on infoQ.
Pair Programming Economics
I’m at OOP this week and had the pleasure yesterday to meet James Grenning for the first time. We had an inspiring conversation last night exchanging tips and strategies on how we inspire developers to try XP practices like TDD and pair programming. I really like his approach for TDD. James asks devs at the […]
