agility – CENovation

Dez 10, 2022 Sam Entrapeneurship agility, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship

Neue Arbeitswelten in Hochfranken

(Veröffentlicht auf das Magazin Karriereziel, Autorin: Vera Dorschner)

„SCRUM gebacken bekommen“: So wirbt seit Juni 2021 ein weiteres Start-up aus Hochfranken, die Agile Bakery, nach nur einem guten halben Jahr der Gründungsphase.

Zwei Fachleute aus komplett unterschiedlichen beruflichen Welten haben sich hier zusammengefunden: Yiheng „Sam“ Cen, aus China stammender freiberuflicher Innovationsberater und Scrum Master, und Andreas Fickenscher, leidenschaftlicher Bäckermeister aus Münchberg und „Handwerker mit agilem Mindset“.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Leadership agility, Leadership, Retrospective

How to run a Retrospective (in Scrum) with Happiness Chemicals

Management Summary

One of my favourite jobs in my intensive phase as Scrum Master in different projects was the design of different Retrospectives. In this article you will except:

What are the “Happiness Chemicals”.
How I applied it to make a different Retrospective.
Why is a happy Scrum Team important to the project success.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Design Thinking agility, Build Test Learn, Design Thinking

Reviewing the “Build-Test-Learn” Cycle from a Duplo Project

Be humble and observative in everyday life, you will learn quite a lot. This is one comment to my above post on LinkedIn.

This time it is about building a Duplo Railway. My 3-year-old boy started by observing how his 6-year-old brother build with Duplo. Having no burden at all in mind, he started his own “project”. He started to build, then he tested it very quickly to see if it is stable and finally he continued, of course, with some special learnings from each previous iteration he ran through.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Leadership agility, Leadership, mindset

How a Snowman-Project helped to rethink leadership

Good lessons are everywhere, we need only good eyes to discover them. For example, the lessons I drew from a snowman project in the kindergarten of my younger son (HERE the original Slideshow in LinkedIn). The slides above are a short form for the lessons, if you happen to understand German, you will get the context even better.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Mindset agility, mindset, user-centricity

Rethinking Agility in combination with Shu-Ha-Ri

Originated from the Japanese Martial art Aikido, the concept “Shu-Ha-Ri” describes the typical process in mastering almost any skill:

Shu – Precisely following the basic rules, do exactly as the teachers do.

Ha – Further develop the skills by trying something different.

Ri – Make your own story and be the skill yourself.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Design Thinking agility, Design Thinking

3 Lessons from a Design Thinking Workshop

Design Thinking as a human-centric innovation method is well known to a lot of people nowadays. Years after learning and applying the method I have finally got the chance to have my very own workshop to work on my project „Hairpy Life„.

Nov 29, 2022 Sam Method agility, mindset, OKR

5 Reasons NOT to apply OKR

Two years after my self-learning about the topic OKR, I finally got the chance to finish the book Measure What Matters by John Doerr.

Thanks to Corona, short-time work and of course my wife, who took care of the kids and granted me some free time for reading😂. The book is very well written, inspiring and challenges me to think: why is it difficult to practice?

Schlagwort: agility