BarCamp Würzburg 2017

After visiting my first bar camp last year, I became quite an aficionado of craftsmanship gatherings.

I visited:

SWEC16
FMD 2017
DevCamp 2017
MQ! 2017
Management 3.0 Stammtisch

All very different formats, locations and price ranges as well. So I was curious what was going to happen at #bcwue.

Table of Contents

The location

The event took place in the building of the computer science department of the university of Würzburg on a Saturday. A very quiet place at that time, enough parking spaces as well ?

Breakfast

The Sessions

As always I had a hard time choosing. 6 out of 23 sessions was the goal. Here are my choices:

Grundgesetz vs Facebook Community Standards

The lawyer Chan-Jo Jun told us about the case Anas Modamani against Facebook.

Main takeaway: if you have a case at court where technology is involved the outcome is like flipping a coin!

Planning of Webweek Würzburg

Ute shared with us her plan to organize a web week like the Nürnberg Web Week.

The hashtag will be #wueww

Lunchbreak

Agile Retrospectives

Again a very inspiring session from Denis from flyeralarm. (I heard his talk at DevCamp)

Ten rules for agile retros:

#10 – Time Boxing
- 5 min – Set the stage, start with something positive
- 25 min – Gather data
- 25 min – Generate Insights
- 30 min – Decide what to do
- 5 min – Close the retro
#9 – A Retro always takes 90 minutes
#8 – As a moderator have a plan B/C
#7 – Be prepared, be prepared, be prepared
#6 – Try always something new (start-stop-continue instead of mad-glad-sad)
#5 – The moderator is not a participant
#4 – Praise participants
#3 – Even the moderator has to improve
#2 – Solutions come from the participants only
#1 – Don’t panic!

A book tip from Denis is Agile Retrospectives from Derby and Larsen

Employee Development

Robert from Mayflower shared his experiences with Peer Reviews. At Mayflower Scrum Master get together quarterly to give and receive feedback on their main skills.

Founding

A session for founders. I shared my experience with my guitar teaching business.

Main takeaway: As a founder do not do all by yourself, hire a tax advisor. Do not overthink the need for legal counsel, invest your money in a consultant which checks your business plan.

Draw Toast

Ute introduced us to a nice concept of design thinking. By visualizing steps of a process on single post-its and rearranging and combining them as a team, you can gather a good understanding of what actually is happening..