Respect is what Aretha Franklin already demanded in her song back in 1967 and respect is still something we fight for in 2021 all over the world. In this blog post, I want to stand up for respect in everyday communication at work and in...
Boring Meetings? Well, just leave them … Meetings - a necessary evil in our daily work. Especially for engineers, they are the opposite of productiveness. Like one hour and no line of code produced - just wasted time. Nevertheless, we need them for collaboration and coordination,...
Having an open mind and trying different approaches have been the success factors for the last ten years of my career. However, there is more to it: growing to the next level usually happened when I had a clear vision in mind that I then...
As innovation manager I am often asked, which parameters are relevant for an insurance company to be successful and keep up with the market or even take the lead. Focusing on...
Hats off and respect to all remote workers with small children! You rock! First, I have to admit that I started working remotely...
Despite the outstanding achievements in information technology in the last decades, businesses of different branches...
Over the last years, I have done a couple of hundred interviews, mainly for developer positions, scrum masters, and...
Often conflict is seen as something wrong that one should avoid. Some colleagues might not ever...
Due to the current circumstances, a lot of companies sent their employees to the home office. For some...
Trained engineers like me love to use all the new technologies evolving basically each day. Continuous Deployment...