Wohnung in Hamburg gesucht

Da ich beruflich wohl bald in den Norden wechseln werde, suchen wir 3 Kerle (2 Kater und ich) noch eine passende Unterkunft.

Im Hamburger Stadtbereich (vorzugsweise im Westen), bin ich auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung mit 2.5 bis 3 Zimmern. Ein Balkon wäre großartig ansonsten habe ich nicht so viele Anforderungen.

Ein paar Facts:

• Wenn es aussenrum grün ist finden wir das nicht schlimm
• Eine Küche haben wir zur Not
• Wir haben manchmal Gäste aber aus dem Partyalter sind wir raus
• Wir würden gerne im ersten Versuch am richtigen Fleck landen
• Mieten ohne Makler finden wir toll
• Es ist eilig. Am 01.06 soll es in Hamburg losgehen
• Da wir alt und seriös sind wird in einer Festanstellung gearbeitet. Diese hat auch den Umzug getriggert

Ich bin für jeden Hinweis dankbar

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The seven Lamps of (Software)Architecture

I am still reading “The Craftsman” by Richard Sennet, a book that was given to me by a very smart Product-Designer/UX-Guy/Carpenter because we talked a lot about the merits on the crafty part of software-development and web-architecture. Amazon describes it as:

Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the ‘skills society’ and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring – and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated.“The Craftsman” shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals’ pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials) which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilize their talents. We need to recognize this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.

In the Book is a whole chapter about John Ruskin, a art critic in the Victorian era who had interest environmentalism, sustainability, craft and his “7 Lamps of Architecture”. These are a part of an essay that was a (slightly polemic) critic on the architectural style of that time. The “7 Lamps of Architecture” represent a take on the “good deeds” of construction things, in this case architecture for buildings. Long story short, I find these 7 principles apply to the construction of software architectures as well and I want to outline the connection here.

Filed under: agile, craftsmanship, development

The Pairing Workshop v0.1

The guys at jimdo were the first ones to invite me over for a workshop. We agreed on a training about Pair programming, a practice known from Extreme Programming. Jimdo really is drinking the agile cool aid (Kanban, Visual Management etc.) and the team seemed to be fond of a training on this very specific topic.

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The thing with the traffic light – stick to the rules?

Back then I  had some discussions about agreed upon rules I wanted the team  to follow (me was coaching) with a manager.  In that situation the manager wanted to do things that were against the rules or simply breaking them. It seemed more easy that way for him, the rules felt to strict in that situation. He told me the following metaphor:

“You know, when you are at a traffic light at night, it’s red, in a small street with no traffic,  and no one is around. Would you stop there for the red light phase?”

Obviously he was pointing out that sticking to the agreed  ruleset in situations where they “obviously” are not making sense is stupid or a waste of time.

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What others think you do …..

I was missing a agile coach one in the meme and since I am a big fan of memes (Thanks for letting me present them on ALE2011) there was no way to resist …..

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Kick Off For Play4Agile

Reblogged from ScrumBut(t):

Today, I made my way to Seminarzentrum Rückersbach, a small retreat close to Frankfurt, where the second Play4Agile takes place.

Play4Agile is a gathering of experienced peers from all over the world to create and play games in an inspiring environment. — Play4Agile Wiki

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A little insight in the play4agile open space conference where I was soaked in the last 4 days.

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Agile Waltz – Brainstorming at #p4a12 – play4agile

While visiting the play4agile conference in Rückersbach, now for the second time in a row, a lot of great feedback was given to me by the participants regarding my journeyman’s year project. A lot of different people visit this conference: From agile coaches to project managers to coding craftsmen, all types of Agilists can be found there. It turned out to be a perfect mixture of people helping me with new input on the idea.

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The journeyman’s travel is an adventure in creative commons

A lot of materials need to be generated in order to organise a workshop on agile. Especially when you involve activities and do not do a frontal style powerpoint thingie. I did this the first time for the dutch PHP Conference and people really liked my new setup. A lot of Stuff is based on “Training from Back of the Room” mixed up with my knowhow.

Since I am not a professional trainer/consultant,  I do not plan to open a own consultancy in the near future and had several experiences with Open Source Software as a developer and user, I came to the conclusion that re-sharing my ideas in a format that other can use to easily build workshops is more of an obligation than an option.

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First feedback

It looks like some people found the journeyman’s travel idea appealing (800 Reads in 3 days, 5 proposals for journeyman’s destinations) and  gave me some feedback. It looks like that workshops seem to be a main interest of people contacting me.

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A journeyman’s travel

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Some ups and downs brought me into the situation that I am actually without a job or contract and I have  some spare time at hand that I am going to spend with a journeyman’s travel or so called waltz.

The journeyman years refer to the tradition of setting out on travel for several years after completing apprenticeship as a craftsman. The tradition dates back to medieval times and is still alive in German-speaking countries. In the British Isles the tradition is lost and only the title journeyman itself remains as a reminder of the custom of young men traveling throughout the country. (wikipedia)

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