Two topics that keep crossing my path these days are trust and resilience. Trust as the foundation for collaboration, and resilience as the ability to deal with challenges, stress, and setbacks—and to emerge stronger. In this blog post, I want to share some first-aid interventions that can help build more trust and resilience in teams—especially when emotions run high and things get heated.

Answer Leveling is a simple technique for coaxing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude out of their shell to generate more exciting and in-depth responses. In this blog post, you'll learn how Scrum Masters can use this method to get more detailed and well-thought-out answers to team-related challenges from large language models—even without advanced prompt engineering skills.

The Sprint Review – one of the most central and exciting events in an agile team, right? Well, theoretically. In practice, many people find it boring, ineffective, or just a mandatory event. Many Scrum Teams stumble over common pitfalls and miss the chance to create real engagement. But it doesn’t have to be this way! A well-run Sprint Review can inspire, unleash energy, be truly enjoyable, and provide a platform for valuable, product-related feedback. Here are 6+ ideas on how to make your Sprint Review a real highlight that excites everyone!

Das Sprint Review – eines der zentralsten und spannendsten Events in einem agilen Team, oder? Naja, theoretisch. In der Praxis empfinden viele es als langweilig, ineffektiv oder reine Pflichtveranstaltung. Viele Scrum-Teams stolpern über typische Fallen und verpassen die Chance, echtes Engagement zu schaffen. Das muss nicht sein! Ein gut durchgeführtes Sprint Review kann inspirieren, Energie freisetzen, richtig Spaß machen und eine Plattform für wichtiges, produktbezogenes Feedback bieten. Hier sind 6+ Ideen, wie du dein Sprint Review wieder zu einem echten Highlight machst, das alle begeistert.

Answer Leveling ist eine simple Technik um AI-Chatbots wie ChatGPT, Gemini oder Claude aus der Reserve zu locken und spannende, tiefergehende Antworten zu erzeugen. In diesem Blogpost erfährst Du, wie Scrum Master diese Technik nutzen können, auch ohne ausgereiftes Prompt-Engineering detailliertere und durchdachtere Antworten zu teambasierten Problemstellungen aus den LLMs zu gewinnen.

25/10 Crowdsourcing is the Swiss Army knife for workshops, retrospectives, strategic planning, vision and user story workshops; for finding and evaluating desired outcomes, product goals, process optimizations. This blogposts goes into detailed steps on how to facilitate this liberating structure in an online setup

Here is a remote-friendly exercise that has helped dozens of my teams find and implement tangible, actionable ideas to stop starting and start finishing. The exercise is quick, doesn’t need much preparation, and lets participants experience the downsides of multitasking very directly on a physical level.

Does the following situation ring a bell? You enter a room and immediately get involved in a situation, listen how a problem is described, see a task or read a request. A single look, a single sentence, a small wink makes you think you perfectly know what is going on. This blogpost invites you to step back and listen before you act. It provides questioning techniques to help you as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer or Agile Leader to stay a little bit longer in the state of "actively do nothing" and listen before you act.

In diesem Blog untersuchen wir, woher diese Grundhaltung kommt, zeigen, wie wir damit umgehen können, leisten Überzeugungsarbeit und bieten Experimente an, d. h. wir

We spend a big part of our workday either participating in or facilitating workshops. In this blog post we will dive into a practice you can use to kick off workshops. A practice to set the tone, to spark impulse, to invite for change and forward momentum: Using videos to kick-start a crucial conversation.

Das kontinuierliche Liefern von nutzbaren Done Inkrementen ist das zentrale Element von Scrum. Will man Scrum auf ein Element reduzieren, dann wäre das genau das.

Scrum is based on self-managed teams. Self-managed teams are able to evolve and adapt quicker in today’s highly complex working environments than traditional command-and-control management structures.