April 2010
1 post
I have moved
You can now find me at
www.portagile.com
Thanks
Markus
February 2010
2 posts
"Unsere Reise ins agile Land" Sessioncast →
I can not describe the joy I felt, when some week ago Bernd Schiffer sent me a link to the first version of the session cast of my first ever Pecha Kucha.
He published it yesterday via the XP-Days Blog on youtube, Vimeo and Viddler. You can watch it here:
[XP Days Germany 2009] Pecha Kucha “Unsere Reise ins Agile Land” von Markus Andrezak from Bernd Schiffer on Vimeo.
My Pecha...
Kanban for maintenance @mobile.international
At OOP 2010 I was talking on our introduction of Kanban for the maintenance of the products of mobile.international. I will write a little more on my impression of Kanban in the furture.
For now, my main points on the introduction are: We really brought an not-so-agile- off-shore partner up to speed with this method (and increased his attention for our agile mindset). We reduced cycle time (pure...
January 2010
10 posts
The (success of the) iPhone will be a midget to...
Years ago, early in the morning I stood in from of our offices. I work at a geek place definitely. I, a geek myself, work at a geek place, definitely. The evening before I just received my iPhone.
The clumsy procedure involved me having to drive to an ugly customs office with depressed and demotivated customs guys having a ball on trying to make me feel illegal because the iPhone was still...
The product owner *can* be a team
New Title here (not above, ‘cause that destroys the permalink): The Product Owner can be a whole team
In his new blog post Roman Pichler breaks with the supposed golden rule that a Product Owner must be a single person, not a committee an organized team.
As with so many things in Scrum - which I guess stem from the beginning, where neither large companies nor large projects were driven by...
Tips on pay rise
Stephan Schmidt gives 10 + 1 very obvious but more so very true hints on how to get a pay rise.
Obviously most of them are not short term - how could they. Most of the tips concentrate on the right attitude on your job and the communication to your manager. They also put into respective the managers budget and copetence for decision perspective.
Even the radical but - oh so true - tip that...
Talking on Kanban Introduction at OOP 2010
On Tuesday, Jan 26, 2pm I will give a talk at OOP 2010 at the ICM Munich about the introduction of Kanban for Maintenance at my company mobile.de.
If you are interested in the background of Kanban, how we introduced and how we got to the point of reducing cycle time from 28 to 5 days and lead time from 52 to 22 days, join the session.
I’ll write more on that topic in this...
Roman Pichler now blogging
I am delighted that Roman Pichler is now blogging. A long time veteran of the Scrum scene and a very well know Scrum Trainer, Roman is one of the few with a special care for the Product Owner role.
An, Roman being Roman, in his first blog entry he gives a very good description of the Product Owner as more than a “simple” owner of the product backlog but having the central role in the...
Congrats to NOOP.nl and Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen Appelo’s Blog NOOP.nl is now exactly two years old and he’s celebrating by giving away books on blogging. Have a look on his birthday posting and join his tweet competition.
Thanks to Jurgen for the work on his blog, in which he presents a very unique mixture of tech, management and entrepreneurial topics.
Celebrate!
Markus
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Why my Pecha Kucha is like it is and why I needed...
At the XP-Days 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany (twitter tag #xdde09) I held a Pecha Kucha. As the people really seemed to like it, I thought to write a little on how I came up with the Pecha Kucha.
The topic was already used twice on conferences: How did we, at mobile.international get on the agile track and how did we develop.
Here is an example of a presentation on that topic, given on Seacon...
Sonne draußen
Der Winter wird ja immer besser. Jetzt kommt auch noch die Sonne raus.
Morgen also die längere Laufstrecke! Es bahnt sich evtl. doch ein Halbmarathon im Frühjahr an.
Übrigens sind hier jetzt auch viele Skilangläufer unterwegs.
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