Pete's Blog

  • Ready to spice up your Meetings?

    If you don’t have a problem or crisis or decision to make, you actually don’t need a meeting. In an agile context it’s common to work in teams. We need the know-how and the creativity of each team member to do the next valuable step that tackles the user problem we are currently facing (or…

  • Elephant, rider and path

    “Switch” addresses the question of why we experience change as hard, in person and in business. The book is entertaining, easy to read and educational.

  • Training “Professional Online Meetings”

    Online meetings are messy and exhausting. And they are not a substitute for on site meetings. I participated in a 2-day training on “Professional Online Meetings” to gain better skills.

  • Different Scripts to Guide you through your Meeting or Workshop

    You are planning to facilitate a workshop or meeting? And it’s not a routine workshop or meeting? Or you are an un-experienced facilitator who needs to facilitate a challenging group and feel insecure about getting it all right? You have checked all items on the meeting or workshop checklist and planned the meeting or workshop…

  • DIY Flipchart for less than 15€

    Most of the or rather all Agile folks love to work with flipchart when presenting or workshoping. Some are so obsessed with the “flipchart-marker-visual-facilitation-universe” that you could think they have a Neuland tatoo. 🙂 Or they want to have a flipchart even at their home. Like me! 😉 In this post I will write about…

  • Checklist for Scrum Masters

    You are a Scrum Master and you have the feeling, that your team “actually works fine” OR You are a Scrum Master and you would like to check what else there is to do to help your team to improve? OR You are a Scrum Master and you are looking for confirmation that you are…

  • Using Scrum on our Trip to Barcelona

    Similar to an Agile software development project you normally want to get the best possible ROI (Return of Invest) from your holiday. We tried to use Scrum on our short trip to Barcelona. 🙂

  • How to Set Off a Brown Bag Session in Your Company – In 60 Minutes

    At my current employer I successfully set off a “Brown Bag Session” with minimal effort (60 minutes), so I like to share this experience with everyone who is thinking about setting off a Brown Bag Session at her company but doesn’t know where or how to start.

  • Instant Feedback Meeting Artefacts

    What are Instant Feedback Meeting Artefacts (IFMAs)?  IFMAs are artefacts that help meetings to get instant feedback in meetings from participants. Why would you use IFMAs? All participants should feel responsible for a successful and meaningful meeting; it is not the sole responsibility of the meeting moderator or facilitator. Most reasons why meetings do not…