Manuel Mueller

In the next lines I am going to show you my way to Certified Scrum Professional (CSP). A year ago, I was at a point where I really wanted to go deeper into the agile mindset. I had a good running team with respectful pace and mindset, but I had the claim to help my organisation to go further in the agile way. In my mind I had a naiv picture of a workplace where all employees are happy stressfree and care about each others in very professional attitude and high quality work. Sounds good, doesn't it? I believe very strong, that the agile movement could make the world a better workplace. If you have satisfied and intrinsic motivated employees you will receive a high quality work in the manner of craftsmanship. So I where looking for an further education in agility. In the "normal" education institutes like universities there where no possibilitiy to strenghten your maturity in agile. So I found the further education offer of TheScrumTeam . Modules for Prozess, Product,...

Recently I finished the Book from Edward de Bono, Think! Before It's too late. I read it in german so the summary is also in german. The mentioned methods in the book are really helpful to see and explore other solutions. Until now I did not experiment with all these methods, but to know there are some, help you already not accept the first and obviously solution for a problem. Thinking around the corner, challenge your mind to try other ways to come to a solution. Enjoy reading and explore your mind for the best solution you can find at the moment. Think - Denken bevor es zu spät ist

Hi everyone The next posts I will take you with me, creating a engineering culture for my organisation. We are a 2500 employee insurance company where the IT section is about 400 people includes all services, in development we are about 200 employees. I think you already know the popular engineering culture videos from spotify, Henrik Kniberg A lot of other organisation have also a short brief engineering culture in a one pager form. My goal is to work something out for our organisation. I belief this is helping the people identifying with the organisation. It is a good communication medium and shows smart and short the way we work together. As first action we held a workshop with all Scrum Master, we where around 20, to go into the theme and discussion with each other. The videos of Henrik we toke for inspiration and afterwards we held a World Café with for themes. Ile of ideas Valley of values Mountain of principles Track of practices With this themes we tried to sh...

Since several sprints I have paint it some Burndown charts they can inspire you to do so. Burndown's can help your team staying focused on the sprint backlog. It also shows you up, if you have too big stories in your sprint, because they take more time to getting done. My recommendation is not count the Subtasks, only show up the real burned stories. What are your experience about burndowns?

That is a realy hard question, isn'it ? Can you answer it for yourself. Try. In my opinion it is important that going to work is not a must. Sure, every one of us have to have some money in the pocket at the end of the day, but this should not be the main driver behind. And it is also clear that we do not have fun the whole day and we have sometimes uncomfortable work to do. But what you like to do most? Do more of them and you are getting more motivated. Another point is, try to have a positiv mindset, smile for you, it will help you to get over the uncomfortable things. To help you to reflect yourself and getting more mindful to your environment, please have also a look on  ascrum.blogspot.com . There you can find some methods you can try to achieve more mindfulness. For this I can aslo recommend the book from Chade-Meng Tan. To enjoy work presupposes that you can work in social and fair environment. There should not be fear somewhere to do something wrong. Also you sho...

I am already had a similar post , but here I want to go for more options for the Scrum Master. In the meantime I came to another view to this theme. Where ends the Scrum Master role? Generally you can say, that if you do Scrum with perfect self organized teams, with high level of Agile mindset there is no more need for a Scrum Master. Everthing is mastered by the Team and Product Owner. The team organizes their dailies, do the retrospective to continuous adaption. The Product Owner do his job properly and organizes the Sprint Review and Sprint Planning 1. Responsible for Sprint planning 2 is the team. What do you mean? Where is the place for the Scrum Maser role? If a Scrum Master do his job well, then he is digging his own grave. But should not that fact be the driver behind the Agility. When a Scrum Master reach this point then he achived the highest Scrum Master Maturity (and could check all points of Great Scrum Master ). He is only needed punctually in the team. So to answer ...

Dear readers I going to write my future blogs in english to reach a greater circle of interest people and to get more feedback to my articles. Built to fail! Our business is built to fail, not to succeed. There has always to be one head to fingerpoint, to blame of. Look to the events in the banking world. At no time the company take the responsibility. Always a single person has fired, blamed and merely asked in the public. However everyone knows that not a single person can take the responsibility of a department. But who should then take it? CEO? President of the board? ... The Problem The companys are built on distrust. There is for each single task a controller, everything is measured with KPIs. Company goals to reach. There is always the revision in the neck, if we do not that way the revision.... This culture get to the employees. There goal is to satisfy the system, not do a good job. Why should they collaborate? There bonus is not getting higher, if they collaborate s...