Posted inWorking life

How to make meetings not suck #2: Filling the meeting with value

(Note: This is a follow up/deep dive from this post) A lot of people hate meetings and claim all (or most) meetings are waste of time. While I certainly agree there are a lot of unnecessary meetings out there - the problem with most of them is the way we do them. We don't plan and prepare, we invite the wrong people and we don't learn from them. There are a lot of meetings that…
Posted inConferences Working life

Agile Testing Days Open Air – How to make meetings not suck

In May 2022 the first Agile Testing Days Open Air took place, and there Samuel Nitsche and I premiered our workshop “How to make meetings not suck”. This post is my reflection on the process of creating the workshop and a slight summary of the workshop itself. Designing a new workshop is always a gamble and kind of nerve wrecking. You work really hard on creating a structure and content that you hope will be valuable…
Posted inPair-blog

The power of Rubber Ducking – Pair blogg # 6

In case you haven’t read about my pair-blogging idea before, a short summary from the first post:"A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be up for pair-blogging. The idea was that we agree on a topic and a date and then we each write a post about that topic. We publish on the same date and promote each other’s posts." Eager to get back on writing and armed with a concept…