Getting everything set up for April 26th meant a new challenge for our team. We had rolled out 8 cities before, but with 1000 smart vehicles, the fleet was more than double the size of any other car2go city before. Everything was prepared perfectly by the rollout team, people from every department supported the tight... Continue Reading →

Thanks to Lars for pointing me to this article. It's a great insight on managing large teams over different locations efficiently. In his November 2012 article, Henrik Kniberg (also see my recent post from him introducing scrum) describes a team setup that combines scrum teams and keeps them interacting with each other. It's a challenge... Continue Reading →

(Really) Simplify Legal Jargon

The Next Web highlights the "simplified" terms of service of a Twitter rival Heello, Pinterest and 500px in a recent post: Now this is how to write a terms-of-service document. Don't get too exited yet. It is a nice idea to highlight the essence of a lengthy, complicated text right next to it. But wouldn't... Continue Reading →

I remember that my fable for visual note taking started somewhere in school. Just writing down what the teacher said or assembling text as home work was not enough. I needed to add some life to it: Historical topics were framed with country shapes, architecture lessons on gothic churches were brightened up with sketches of... Continue Reading →

I'll leave out the question whether we really need a new word like "Shareconomy" for what we do... Besides that, friendsurance has put together an Infographic showing the companies that form the German landscape of collaborative consumption. It's beautifully laid-out as a subway net and combines car sharing, other mobility, finance, goods, coworking and more.

Agile Product Ownership

With his 15 minute animated presentation, Henrik Kniberg describes the building blocks of agile product development really nicely. It all sounds so simple. And actually, it is (while it actually isn't). To my experience, one key fact for success to agile is achieving a high degree of transparency. No one wants to hear a "no"... Continue Reading →

Innovation must be a Leadership attitude

This post "Your Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem" by Scott Anthony points out several aspects that can help make (or keep) your organization innovative, focusing on the leadership team's responsibilities. In daily business, I see two things that seem to be in contradiction by nature: The quality you need for operational excellence vs.... Continue Reading →

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