The Agile Manifesto

When you are working in an agile team e.g. Scrum you might have heard about the agile manifesto. Formulated in 2001 it influenced a lot of software developers and methodologies like Scrum. The Agile Manifesto consists of 4 values and 12 principles: Values Principles Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and…

Moving Motivators

An interesting technique from the Management 3.0 book “Managing for happiness” is the moving motivators exercise. What are the benefits of this exercise? It raises self-awareness about what motivates you, say what makes you get up in the morning. You can figure out what is important to your colleagues and support them in those areas.…

Kudo Cards

What is Kudo? Kudo is Greek for fame or honor. The idea behind Kudo Cards is to say “Thank You” in a meaningful way. By taking the time to specify and write down what you are actually grateful for. Variations As an alternative to just give a card to a co-worker, you can enhance the…

Distributing your own package on PyPi

In Regular Expressions Demystified I developed a little python package and distributed it via PyPi. I wanted to publish my second self-written package as well, but coming back after almost a year, some things have changed in the world of PyPi, i.e. the old tutorials aren’t working anymore. So I wrote this article to bring…

My Barcamp History

I became a bar camp afficionade after I had attendend the Software Engineering Camp in 2016 2023 BarCamp Regensburg Seneca BarCamp Nürnberg Digital Festival Creator’s BarCamp 2022 Meetup Let’s talk about Web Security! BarCamp Regensburg 2022 DevOps Camp 2022 Recap 2019 Software Engineering Camp 2019 PyConDE Berlin 2019 BarCamp Regensburg 2019 2018 ASQF Agile Brunch…

My Management 3.0 Experiments

My Experiments so far Kudo Cards I gave Kudo Cards to my colleague Michi M. for preparing a nice presentation my colleague Bastian B. for driving an extra tour my colleague Jannik for voluntarily organizing a team event our HR department for introducing a new tool for our application process my CEO for giving me…

BarCamp Regensburg 2018

The Barcamp Regensburg 2018 took place on October 13th and 14th at Techbase Regensburg. Due to my visit to DevOps Camp Nuremberg on Saturday, I could only visit this barcamp on Sunday. Sessions I participated in a session about Dress Code at work,  learned about meditation and talked about the Bavarian Landtagswahl. I also held…