shift happens

Your 'collaboration' is not my 'collaboration'

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:34:11 +0200

In my observation, we often are unaware of how different work can be between various contexts. The differences can be enormous, especially when comparing the tech bubble to other bubbles. Processes, agile methodologies…

When abstraction goes wrong...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:22:32 +0200

Reducing complexity by abstraction is one of humans’ crucial strengths (and often a necessity). Usually, this leads to a conscious inaccuracy that we can handle by actively…

Said is not heard

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:13:12 +0200

When interacting with others, we wonder when people behave differently than they have said, why people stay silent, or why they do not ask questions. We often forget…

Nagging factor: macOS X app switcher

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:42:53 +0200

Doesn’t automatically fit into the context of coaching, organizational development, leadership, and personal development. Still, I work a lot via several monitors…

Lead with an infinite mindset

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:12:53 +0200

I know that Simon Sinek is polarizing in some ways and therefore not always appreciated as an example. Nevertheless, his lectures on the aspect of an “infinite mindset” have – from my perspective – a valid point.

Mental Health

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 21:11:59 +0200

In my role as a coach, I have a lot of contact with people and their personal acute issues. Again and again, the topics of work-life balance and resilience come up.

What is coaching?

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:07:36 +0200

What is coaching? This a question I asked myself for the first time a few years ago and have been asked again and again since the beginning of my coaching education. At the beginning of my coaching education, it was not easy for me to give a short and concrete answer to this question. In one sentence, I would describe coaching today as follows: “Coaching means accompanying another person in working towards a goal of one’s choosing, working in partnership with this person, and thus walking a piece of this person’s life journey together.

Why do I work where I work?

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:21:45 +0200

In 2010, I worked in a company undergoing some changes. At the same time, I experienced a noticeable departure of colleagues. In this situation, a colleague shared this article from 2009, which describes the connection between small, seemingly terse changes, such as eliminating free soft drinks, and an increased willingness to change employers.

Self-organized salary finding

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:08:56 +0200

At one of my former employers, I worked intensively with my colleagues on salary, effectiveness, and contribution to the company’s success as part of self-organization and Holacracy. My colleague at the time, Daniel, and I gave a presentation on this topic at BedCon in September 2018.

Who is the one?

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:28:11 +0200

“Who is the one?” is a talk that I presented at the BEDCon, GOTO Nights Berlin, Hypoport Leadership Days and Manage Agile in 2017 and 2018. The scope of the talk was a glance into the introduction of self-organization at my former employer, Europace AG. In 2016, we started the transition towards self-organization – Holacracy and Sociocracy in particular. Abstract Who is the one? For more than 8 years, the teams at Europace worked with agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.

MongoDB - resizing the oplog of replica sets

Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:15:59 +0200

MongoDB replica sets are used to provide redundancy for MongoDB. For the data replication, MongoDB uses the so-called oplog. This oplog is a separate collection within the local database. It is capped, so the collection cannot get bigger than the configured size. This limits the amount of entries that can be stored within the collection. If the collection is full, the oldest entries will be removed. When an application fills the oplog within 35 minutes, the replica set will get out of sync after 34 minutes and 59 seconds in case of a disaster event.

MongoDB - Can we have a backup please?

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:08:39 +0200

This talk is about the experiences made by Jörg Müller and Stefan Rudnitzki when they improved their MongoDB backup strategy. The talk presents their current production backup strategy, their decisions while building it, and outlines the approach’s pros and cons.