During the Mini XP Days conference, Rini Van Solingen interviewed me on the fishbowl exercise. This is a great exercise to use in retrospectives when your team is divided and needs to understand the different opinions without lapsing into hour-long discussions. Check out the video. Many thanks to Rini and his camera crew!
It's hard to describe, what I do. It really depends on the situation. In all cases, I'm hired as a consultant to help teams deliver software. My biggest strengths are located in the fields of teamwork, motivation, leadership and continuous improvement. In the IT industry you find a lot of these values in the agile movement, in which I often act as a project leader, product owner or coach. My interests go a lot further, into other industries where we find these values in lean production. Besides that, I try to broaden my horizon as much as possible, always looking for better ways of doing business.
