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For a while I had a topic in my backlog that I titled “Why I don’t like complaining about tools” - in which I wanted to elaborate, well actually rant, on why I dislike how often people complain about tools instead of fixing the real cause. I pondered about it for a while and when I was describing...

This is post covers a topic that I wanted to write on for quite a while. Few weeks ago Dirk asked me on how I employ the timeblocking technique and that got me into the mood of actually tackling this subject. Especially since that week was one of those weeks that - due to my son being sick at hom...

The first post in the series “Let’s look at the series of Ted Lasso through the eyes of a manager” ;) Quick links for the ones who don’t know Ted Lasso: Wikipedia Apple TV+ IMDB S01E01 - Pilot Link to this episode on IMDB and to directly watch it: Apple TV+ I’m not going to bisect it i...

Yesterday ‘aired’ the final episode of season 2 of Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso is one of the Apple TV+ productions. I’ve been actually sucked into the Apple TV+ cosmos - I find that most of their stuff is really really good. However, especially Ted Lasso is great. For the ones not knowing Ted Lasso: Th...

A while ago I got hooked by the concepts and ideas published in the book Team Topologies. Together with Luca and Dierk I wrote an article giving an overview of the concept of Team Topologies: Team topologies in adaptive organisations The article was originally published on german. Aside from t...

Within the last year a gazillion of blog posts popped up around the net on how companies deal with the remote situation that has arisen from the pandemic. So while I will elaborate on a remote scenario it is not pandemic special (even though with the context of the last year, it might seem so). I...

Being a parent opens up a new angle on viewing things. While I’ve been in a managing position at work for the majority of my worklife, this role is fairly new to me in the context of my own family. Not surprisingly there are similar patterns and I want to share a few thoughts on these. For today,...